Benjamin Victor Cohen

Benjamin Victor Cohen

Benjamin V. Cohen (1894–1983), a member of the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, had a public service career that spanned from the early New Deal through and beyond the Vietnam War era.

Read more about Benjamin Victor Cohen:  Education, Early Career, Brain Trust, New Deal, World War II and Post-War, Works

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