A view of the White House and the National Christmas Tree. 12/18/65.
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Seniors exiting the White House after speaking to White House staff about strengthening Social Security and Medicare.
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Chief of Staff to President Obama, Jack Lew, was speaking to Seniors at the White House Seniors Summit.
Seniors arriving at the Eisenhower Executive Building for the White House Summit.
New post up on Entitled You Know about the Seniors’ White House Summit. If you were following our twitter, you would have read some quotes from the event along with personal stories excerpts. Attendees had the pleasure of hearing from Jack Lew (President Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff), Liz Fowler (Special Assistant to the President on Economic Healthcare Council), and many others.
Visit the following link to read all about it: http://www.ncpssm.org/entitledtoknow/?p=2403
Jon Bauman aka Bowser from Sha Na Na stopped by the White House Seniors’ Summit to listen in.
A senior asks a White House staffer a question at the Seniors’ Summit.
The Medicare and Medicaid programs were signed into law on July 30, 1965. President LBJ is pictured at the signing ceremony in Independence, Missouri at the Truman Library. Former President Truman is seated beside him. LBJ held the ceremony there to honor President Truman’s leadership on health insurance, which he first proposed in 1945.
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ICYMI:
The White House has weighed in publicly for the first time on a House Republican move that could precipitate a fight over Social Security in the next two years.
The House voted last week to block a routine transfer of tax revenue between Social Security’s retirement and disability funds; the latter is projected to start being unable to pay full benefits in late 2016, sparking a crisis that advocates warn the GOP could use as leverage to push changes to the program. The rule says a transfer, which had been done 11 times previously under Democratic and Republican administrations, can be done only if there are cost-saving measures attached to it.
via Talking Points Memo.
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