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Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt. As a third-party candidate in 1912 he was the first to propose that America
adopt social insurance, and his Progressive Party (aka the "Bull
Moose" party) adopted the proposal in its platform. The Progressive
Party platform can be seen as the forerunner of the Social Security program
that TR's cousin, Franklin Roosevelt, would successfully push through
Congress in 1935.
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