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Early Operations

 

 

Richard Nixon

President Nixon signed two major Social Security bills in 1972, while on vacation
at his residence in San Clemente, Ca. The two bills created the automatic annual
Cost-of-Living increases (COLAs) and the SSI program.

 
 
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