Today is the 70th anniversary of the creation of Social Security Disability Insurance Benefits.
I don’t have a link handy but there’s no photo available of then President Eisenhower signing the bill. He had opposed it and signed it only reluctantly. He didn’t want a photo taken. Occasionally you see a photo of Eisenhower signing a bill on a news release or article about this anniversary but the photo is of Ike signing some different bill. Other than the creational of the interstate highway system the creation of Social Security disability benefits was probably the most consequential domestic legislation that became law during Ike’s presidency.
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The signing of the first major civil rights legislation since Reconstruction that protected African American voting rights didn’t make your list?
Did Ike sign it? Didn’t think so
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was the first federal civil rights law passed by the United States Congress since Reconstruction, signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on September 9, 1957. It primarily aimed to protect voting rights by establishing the Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice, creating the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and allowing federal authorities to seek court injunctions against voter suppression.
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