John Moser

There were some conservatives in the Republican party who really wanted it to, but when Eisenhower becomes president, he says, no, I'm not, you know, I want to spend less, but we're not going to get rid of social security.

60, 1964, uh,

A conservative Republican, Barry Goldwater, runs for office saying, yeah, we've got to privatize Social Security.

We're going to roll back a lot of these things.

The conservative wing of the Republican Party loved it.

The American people didn't.

And the New Deal has been safe ever since.

They used to say Social Security was the third rail of American politics.

You don't touch it.

Still is.

So I've got this book called The Great Depression Facts and Fictions.

I'm working on the last chapter of that.

So within the next year or so, I expect that's going to be published.

And then this summer, I'm moving to Knoxville, Tennessee.

I'm going to be teaching starting fall of 2026 at the University of Tennessee.