Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF37-015
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning poverty. Despite the original folder title, it contains mainly memoranda, charts, and drafts, rather than articles. Items of note include a memorandum from Heller to Theodore Sorensen with recommendations for making the "Attack on Poverty" central to President Johnson's legislative agenda; several early proposals for an attack on poverty, one by David L. Hackett and another by William M. Capron and Burton Weisbrod; a draft of Chapter 2 of the Council of Economic Advisers report on "The Problem of Poverty in America"; a draft of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 to combat poverty; a memorandum from HEW Secretary Wilbur J. Cohen proposing a 1964 legislative program for "Widening Participation in Prosperity - an Attack on Poverty"; a paper titled "Some Notes on a Program of 'Human Conservation,'" likely by C. Schultze; early outlines for an attack on poverty; Congressional print of "Governmental Policies to Deal with Prices in Key Industries in Selected Foreign Countries" (possibly misfiled); and a memorandum on "Post-War Poverty Trends" by Robert J. Lampman and Donald A. Nichols.