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[Music] the story of Margaret Oliver's work and your Social Security goes back a long way when this was a portrait of the future for millions of Americans when they reached old age they found themselves lacking the means to meet even their barest needs and so they were forced to become Wards of public charity [Music] denied the Dignity of a happy earned security their declining years became a period of hopeless waiting [Music] foreign [Music] these people could not work out the picture of a happy old age something had to be done something was done in 1935 Franklin D Roosevelt put his signature on the Social Security Act this social security measure gives at least some protection to 30 millions of our citizens who will reap direct benefits through Unemployment Compensation through old age pensions and through increased services for the protection of children and the prevention of ill health and so today this is the portrait of the future a picture Which social security helped make possi