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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF16-014
This folder contains correspondence and memoranda between Walter W. Heller and Kermit Gordon, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers and later Director of the Bureau of the Budget. Enclosures include Gordon's testimony in Congressional hearings on budget and tax matters, and an article about Gordon titled "Man with a $100-billion Budget," published in Business Week.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF21-002
This folder contains Walter W. Heller's correspondence with the Bureau of the Budget (BOB). Types of material include letters, memoranda, reports, press releases, budget data, and speeches. Some material was widely distributed by the Bureau, while other correspondence is specific to discussions between the BOB and the Council of Economic Advisers. Correspondents from the BOB include Kermit Gordon (director), Elmer B. Staats (deputy director), Arthur B. Focke (general counsel), and Raymond T. Bowman (assistant director for statistical standards). The file also contains charts of Congressional actions on appropriation bills; reports on financial aspects of proposed and pending legislation; Congressional testimony of Gordon on the public debt limit; and a paper by Andrew H. Gantt II titled "Central Governments: Cash Deficits and Surpluses."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF21-001
This folder contains Walter W. Heller's correspondence with the Bureau of the Budget (BOB). Types of material include letters, memoranda, reports, press releases, budget data, and speeches. Some material was widely distributed by the Bureau, while other correspondence is specific to discussions between the BOB and the Council of Economic Advisers. Correspondents from the BOB include Kermit Gordon (director), Elmer B. Staats (deputy director), Arthur B. Focke (general counsel), and Raymond T. Bowman (assistant director for statistical standards). The file also contains charts of Congressional actions on appropriation bills; reports on financial aspects of proposed and pending legislation; an analysis of "Federal Activities in Public Works"; and an address by Bowman titled "The American Statistical Association and Federal Statistics."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF27-004
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning the federal budget in general. Types of items include memoranda, charts, papers, and news articles. The papers cover various aspects of the budgeting process and were written by Roy E. Moor, Charles L. Schultze, F. M. Bator, Andrew H. Gantt II, Gerhard Colm, Carl S. Shoup, and R. A. Musgrave.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF60-005
This folder contains carbon copies of outgoing correspondence and memoranda by Walter W. Heller. The items are mostly arranged in reverse chronological order. There is one misfiled letter from July 1962 at the beginning of the file. Occasionally there are letters signed by Heller's assistant, Charles A. Cooper, or his secretaries, Doris E. Gary and Barbara Peikin. Most correspondence from the end of the month was signed by Kermit Gordon as Acting Chairman.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-090-006
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Materials consist of a memorandum and report to the President from Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon on measures to improve the balance of payments. Also included is a memoradum and report to the President from Director of the Bureau of the Budget Kermit Gordon regarding the Second Quarterly Report on International Transactions of the Federal Government.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF87-007
This folder contains material pertaining to U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means hearings on President Kennedy's tax program for 1963. It includes statements by Douglas Dillon, Richard A. Musgrave, Frazar B. Wilde, and Kermit Gordon, as well as Council of Economic Advisers edits to one of Dillon's draft statements. There are also press releases from the Ways and Means Committee regarding decisions made during initial drafting of the tax bill legislation.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-071-006
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Bureau of the Budget. Topics include civilian employment in the executive branch, changes to a draft budget message, and cotton subsidies. Of note is a copy of Director of the Bureau of the Budget Kermit Gordon's statement on the President's tax program before the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee.
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H. Bentley Hahn Personal Papers
HBHPP-001-015
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-112-003
Sound recording of three meetings. The first is a Cabinet meeting held on September 23, 1963, during which members of several departments brief President John F. Kennedy and each other on topics of particular interest, including private wheat sales to the Soviet Union and relevant political issues, Secretary McNamara and General Taylor's mission to South Vietnam, federal employment, and the economic outlook heading into 1964. Meeting participants include President Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara; Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon; Acting Secretary of State George Ball; Herbert Miller for the Attorney General; Acting Postmaster General Sidney Bishop; Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall; Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman; Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges; Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz; Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Anthony Celebrezze; Director of the Bureau of the Budget Kermit Gordon; Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner; Special Assistant to the President Timothy J. ("Ted") Reardon; Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs McGeorge Bundy; and Special Counsel to the President Ted Sorensen.Second is a brief meeting on civil rights held on September 23, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division Burke Marshall. One segment of this recording totaling 16 seconds has been removed in accordance with Section 3.4 (b) (1), (3) of Executive Order 13526.
Third is part of a meeting held on September 23, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and several city leaders from Birmingham, Alabama, including Dr. Landon Miller, W.C. Hamilton, Caldwell Marks, Frank Newton, and Don Hawkins. They discuss civil rights issues in Birmingham. The recording of this meeting ends abruptly and continues on Tape 113. Please note that this meeting was previously made available for review in 1984.
This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 112, which contains additional sound recording(s) preceding this one. See Related Records to access Tape 112 in its entirety or the remainder of recording of the third meeting on Tape 113.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-110-003
Sound recording of a meeting held on September 12, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and economic advisers. Participating advisers include Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Under Secretary of the Treasury Robert V. Roosa, Director of the Bureau of the Budget Kermit Gordon, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) Walter Heller, Chairman of the Federal Reserve System Board of Governors William McChesney Martin, CEA member Gardner Ackley, CEA member John Lewis, and Assistant Director of the Bureau of the Budget Charles Schultze. They discuss economic spending, military pay, and the likelihood of a recession. Please note that this meetings was opened in 1983 as part of the Tax Cut tape release package. This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 110, which contains additional sound recording(s) preceding and following this one. See Related Records to access Tape 110 in its entirety.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-110-001
Sound recording of a meeting held on September 11, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and his economic advisors to discuss various economic issues concerning the balance of payments, such as trade, tariffs, export-import, exchange control, and taxes. Participants include President Kennedy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Under Secretary of the Treasury Robert V. Roosa, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) David Bell, Director of the Bureau of the Budget Kermit Gordon, Under Secretary of State George Ball, Professor and member of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) James Tobin, Chairman of the CEA Walter Heller, Special Representative for Trade Negotiations Christian Herter, economist and Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith, and G. Griffith Johnson. Much of the long discussion consists of exchanges between Ambassador Galbraith and Secretary Dillon. This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 110, which contains additional sound recording(s) following this one. See Related Records to access Tape 110 in its entirety.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-104-003
Sound recording of a meeting held on August 13, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy, Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Director of the Bureau of the Budget Kermit Gordon, Member of the Council of Economic Advisers Gardner Ackley, Assistant Director of the Bureau of the Budget Charles Schultze, Member of the Council of Economic Advisers John Lewis, Assistant Director of the Bureau of the Budget and Economic Adviser Kenneth Hansen, Special Counsel to the President Theodore "Ted" Sorensen, and Administrative Assistant to the President Henry Hall Wilson. They discuss economic spending, military pay, and the prospects of a recession. Please note that this meeting was opened in 1983 as part of the Tax Cut tape release package. This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 104, which contains additional sound recording(s) preceding and following this one. See Related Records to access Tape 104 in its entirety.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-098-002
Sound recording of a meeting held on July 16, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy, Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Under Secretary of State George Ball, Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs Richard Holton, Administrator of the Agency for International Development (AID) David Bell, Chief United States Trade Negotiator Christian Herter, member of the Council of Economic Advisers Walter Heller, Director of the Bureau of the Budget Kermit Gordon, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs McGeorge Bundy, Special Counsel to the President Theodore Sorensen, and Under Secretary of Commerce Franklin Roosevelt, Jr. The discussions concerning the balance of payments are similar to discussions in a meeting the previous day, only in a larger group. Actions by the Federal Reserve as well as the President’s Special Message to Congress on the Balance of Payments are also covered. In addition, military budget cuts in personnel and in aid, and export-trade difficulties are discussed in detail. Two segments of the recording totaling 2 minutes have been removed in accordance with Section 3.4 (b) (1), (3) of Executive Order 12958. This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 98, which contains additional sound recording(s) preceding and following this one. See Related Records to access Tape 98 in its entirety.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-098-001
Sound recording of a meeting held on July 15, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy, Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Walter Heller from the Council of Economic Advisers, Director of the Bureau of the Budget Kermit Gordon, Chairman of the Federal Reserve System Board of Governors William McChesney Martin, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs Robert Roosa, and Under Secretary of Commerce Franklin Roosevelt, Jr. They discuss balance of payments issues and the effect on the deficit. There are also discussions about an increase in the short term rate. This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 98, which contains additional sound recording(s) following this one. See Related Records to access Tape 98 in its entirety.