Excerpt from the Speech "The Roots of Social Security" by Frances Perkins"
Channel: Guy Clinch
Date: 2022-08-14

Frances Perkins, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor and the first woman to serve as a cabinet secretary, a driving force behind the New Deal, remembers that day August 14, 1935, The Social Security Act (H.R. 7260, Public Law No. 271, 74th Congress) became law with the President's signature at approximately 3:30 p.m. on a Wednesday. 
Short bio of Frances Perkins https://www.ssa.gov/history/fperkins.html
The Roots of Social Security speech https://www.ssa.gov/history/perkins5.html
Presidential Statement Signing the Social Security Act - August 14, 1935 From: https://www.ssa.gov/history/fdrsignstate.html
More: https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/social-security-act;
“The Social Security Act (Act of August 14, 1935) [H. R. 7260]
PREAMBLE
An act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several States to make more adequate provision for aged persons, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemployment compensation laws; to establish a Social Security Board; to raise revenue; and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled …”
Source: https://www.ssa.gov/history/35actpre.html