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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF28-017
This folder contains a list of former members and current and former consultants of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), which was likely compiled around September 1962. With the exception of one individual, those listed were all hired or appointed during the Kennedy administration.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF28-016
This folder contains memoranda by Walter W. Heller and other individuals from the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) to document miscellaneous knowledge, often arising out of informal conversations. There is also information on CEA staffing issues and the division of responsibility between CEA members according to field or topic.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF28-015
This folder contains one memorandum regarding an idea for a seminar by Council of Economic Advisers staff member Warren L. Smith.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF28-014
This folder contains planning material compiled by Walter W. Heller. The first portion of the file appears to be notes from meetings with Walter S. Salant, Arthur Goldberg, and W. Willard Wirtz. Also included is a memorandum regarding a proposal to study the economic impact of defense programs.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF28-013
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) budget for fiscal year 1964. There are two items of correspondence.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF28-012
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF28-011
This folder contains background material compiled by Walter W. Heller on various topics. Items include an outline for handling questions on budget cutting, a background paper on "Developments in U.S. Wage-Price Policy," and a chart of major union negotiations.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF28-010
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning adjustments to and reapportionment of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) budget for fiscal year 1963.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF28-009
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning the budget request of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) for fiscal year 1964. The only items are two cover letters.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF28-008
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning the budget request of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) for fiscal year 1965. Items include correspondence, memoranda, and Heller's statement before the House Committee on Appropriations.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF28-007
This folder contains correspondence regarding articles written by Walter W. Heller for external publications. One article was for Encyclopedia Britannica on the topic of taxation, and another was for Production magazine's special issue on productivity.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF28-006
This folder contains notes and lists compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning the activities and accomplishments of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF86-006
This folder contains material pertaining to tax cuts during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Types of material include correspondence, memoranda, news articles, papers, press releases, speeches, and testimony from Congressional hearings on the tax bill. Items include a Treasury Department paper on "Social Security Financing, Taxation and Welfare, and Income Maintenance"; a paper on the effect of a $10 billion federal tax reduction on state and local tax revenues; and an article by Arthur F. Burns titled "An Economist Looks at the President's Tax Program."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF86-005
This folder contains a summary by the Treasury Department's Office of Tax Analysis of an article by Henry C. Wallich regarding the relationship between income taxes and economic growth.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF86-004
This folder contains Walter W. Heller's file of general material on tax reform proposals and the Kennedy administration's tax cut plan. Types of material include correspondence, memoranda, news articles, papers, tables and data, press releases, and speeches. Items include a published copy of the Depreciation Guidelines and Rules published by the Internal Revenue Service (July 1962); an article by Harold M. Somers titled "Reconsideration of the Capital Gains Tax"; a draft Council of Economic Advisers staff paper on developments in the tax field in 1961; testimony of Stanley S. Surrey before the Canadian Tax Foundation and before the Senate Finance Committee on H.R. 10; a critique of the federal tax system by Dan Throop Smith; and a paper by Robert Anthoine and Henry S. Bloch titled "Tax Policy and the Gold Problem."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF86-003
This folder contains material pertaining to potential changes in tax laws. Types of material include correspondence, memoranda, papers and news articles. Much of the correspondence is in response to Walter W. Heller's public statements on tax reform. Items include Congressional testimony by Robert H. Knight on H.R. 8847; a paper by Fielding L. Dillard titled "Should a State Adopt Federal Tax Laws"; and an article by Matthew J. Kust titled "Tax Reform for the Sixties."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF86-002
This folder contains a few documents pertaining to taxes, including a Council of Economic Advisers staff memorandum describing a proposal for countercyclical tax flexibility.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF86-001
This folder contains material pertaining to an interdepartmental staff committee that provided recommendations to the White House Task Force on Tax-Exempt Foundations. Council of Economic Advisers staff members Rashi Fein, Robert J. Lampman, and Paul Sarbanes participated in the study. Types of material in the file include correspondence, memoranda, papers, and reports.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF85-001
This folder contains material pertaining to Walter W. Heller's involvement with the National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. (NBER), a private non-profit research organization that aims to produce data on major economic problems. Heller represented the University of Minnesota on the NBER board of directors for a five-year term that ended in 1963. Types of material in the file include correspondence and accompanying enclosures such as reports, meeting minutes, press releases, papers, and news articles that review NBER publications. Most correspondence is with William J. Carson (Executive Director) or Arthur F. Burns (President). A large portion of the 1961 material relates to a critique that Burns issued against the positions of the Council of Economic Advisers.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF84-003
This folder contains material pertaining to the President's Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Policy, which was established in February 1961 to give direction to the general movement of wages and prices and to encourage good labor-industrial relations. Both Walter W. Heller and Kermit Gordon of the Council of Economic Advisers were involved with the Advisory Committee. Types of material in this file include correspondence, memoranda, reports, papers, statements, press releases, charts, and news clippings. There is a copy of the published proceedings of a Conference on Fiscal and Monetary Policy sponsored by the Advisory Committee (November 1962), and data on employment from the Department of Labor (March 1961). Topics include pensions, railroads, taxes, collective bargaining, and economic recovery.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF84-002
This folder contains material pertaining to Walter W. Heller's involvement with the Committee on Urban Economics (CUE) of Resources of the Future, Inc., an independent non-profit research organization. Types of material include correspondence, reports, papers, meeting agendas and minutes, and summaries of grant proposals.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF84-001
This folder contains material pertaining to Walter W. Heller's involvement with the Committee for Economic Development (CED), a private non-profit organization of business leaders that promotes policies for economic growth. Heller was a member of the Subcommittee on Collegiate Education for Business, and most information in the file relates to that group. Types of material include correspondence, memoranda, meeting materials, press releases, newsletters, reports, papers, and news articles. There is also a booklet titled "Taxes and Trade: 20 Years of CED Policy," which includes an address by President Kennedy.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF08-006
This folder contains miscellaneous correspondence and enclosures sent to the Council of Economic Advisers by individuals whose last names begin with the letter K. The material is filed roughly in reverse chronological order according to the date of the carbon copy reply. Items include two papers by Mari Kenrick titled "Kennedy and Congress" and "Deficit Spending and Deficit Investment"; a paper by Lawrence S. Kubie titled "The Need for a National Institute for Basic Research on the Educational Process"; a booklet by Ludvik Kromarek titled "Reincarnation of Caesar"; an article by Senator Kenneth B. Keating titled "Why Help the Reds Win the Cold War," reprinted from Reader's Digest; a paper by H. [Hartmut Paul] Kallmann titled "General Report and Conclusions from My Scientific Visit to France"; a speech by George S. Moore titled "A New Look at Economic Development"; and a draft essay by Charles C. Killingsworth titled "How to Pay for Higher Education."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF08-005
This folder contains miscellaneous correspondence and enclosures sent to the Council of Economic Advisers by individuals whose last names begin with the letter J. The material is filed roughly in reverse chronological order according to the date of the carbon copy reply. Items include a speech by Walter K. Joelson titled "The American Economy and Its Position in the Free World: 1964 - A Year of Transition"; five issues of Technocracy Briefs newsletter (April 1955-January 1959); a transcript of Walter W. Heller's appearance on Meet the Press (10 February 1963); and a speech by Heller to the New York Society of Security Analysts (18 February 1963). Note that this file contains some misfiled correspondence from 1962.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF08-004
This folder contains miscellaneous correspondence and enclosures sent to the Council of Economic Advisers by individuals whose last names begin with the letter I. The material is filed roughly in chronological order according to the date of the carbon copy reply. Items include a report by V. L. Israelsen titled "Investment in People: A Study in Higher Education Finance"; and a memorandum by Leo H. Irwin, Chief Counsel of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, titled "Funny Things Happen to the Staff on the Way to a Hearing."