Economist, educator, government official. Professor, Harvard University (1946-1966); Deputy Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (1961-1963); special consultant to the President (1963); chairman, President's Task Force on Foreign Economic Policy (1964); director, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University (1966-1976). vice-chairman and director of research, Sloan Commission on Government and Higher Education (1977-79); Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1977- ), director of Program in Science Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1981- ).
Papers (1948-1976) consist of correspondence, memorandums, studies, reports, and other personal or professional papers relating primarily to his academic career.
The National Security Files contain a series of subject files maintained by Carl Kaysen.
Oral History interviews (1966): Kaysen completed two interviews for the John F. Kennedy Library; JFK#1 interview: 7/11/1966; JFK#2 interview: 7/15/1966. Each interview comments upon Kaysen's role as Deputy Special Assistant, strategic retaliatory forces, the Congo, Civil Defense, balance of payments, and Basic National Security Policy [BNSP], the Limited Test Ban Treaty, and the Nuclear Test Ban Conference negotiations in Moscow in 1963, among other issues.
Kaysen completed one additional interview as part of a panel for White House Staff Reflections on The New Frontier, 1981. 204 pp. ©