[img_assist|nid=3159|title=Maryland Alliance of Retired Americans President Bruce Dunton outside the Social Security Administration HQ today|desc=Camapign Photo|link=none|align=middle|width=416|height=189]This afternoon, state Democrats gathered at the national headquarters of the Social Security Administration in Woodlawn for a birthday: the landmark New Deal program was signed into law by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt 73 years ago today.
Yet much of the event was focused on someone born a year later: Republican presidential nominee and U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).