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Alf Landon and Social Security Reform
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 52, Number 2, Spring 2005 (whole No. 219)
- pp. 5-6
- 10.1353/dss.2005.0002
- Article
- Additional Information
In the current debate over Social Security reform, the name of Alf Landon, the 1936 Republican candidate for president, rarely comes up. But it should. Landon made what he called "the bungling and waste" of Social Security the key to his presidential campaign, and his opposition to Social Security, along with the arguments President Franklin Roosevelt voiced in defending Social Security against Landon, offers a history lesson that deserves our attention.