Close
Not finding the information you're looking for? Please contact the Archives research staff.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF45-005
This folder contains miscellaneous Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) material that was presumably collected by Joseph J. Walka, assistant to the chairman, soon after he assumed the position. Items include a U.S. Chamber of Commerce publication on Selected Antitrust and Trade Regulation Issues (10 July 1963); charts of the gross national product and national income; and a speech by Walter W. Heller titled "The Challenge of Taxation in the American Economy" (14 August 1963).
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF42-030
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill H.R. 11180, which would amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF42-029
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill H.R. 11960, to authorize the exchange of public domain lands heretofore withdrawn and reserved for the use of the Hanford project of the Atomic Energy Commission.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF42-031
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB) draft bill to amend section 408 of the National Housing Act to provide for regulation of savings and loan holding companies and subsidiary companies.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF42-032
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill H.R. 3545, to amend section 131 of title 13, United States Code, so as to provide for taking of the economic censuses one year earlier starting in 1968.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF44-052
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on the Legislative Reference Service's analysis of the President's economic proposals.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF42-033
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill S. 3049, the Housing Act of 1964, which would extend and amend laws relating to housing, urban renewal, and community facilities.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF42-034
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill H.R. 8000, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to impose a tax on acquisitions of certain foreign securities in order to equalize costs of longer-term financing in the United States and in markets abroad. The concept is referred to as an interest equalization tax in the documents.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF38-004
This folder contains a memorandum by the Department of Labor with the agency's recommendations for the 1964 legislative program to combat poverty. It includes a related report on proposed programs to enable people to break out of poverty cycles, to provide better living environments, and to provide adequate income.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF38-003
This folder contains a preliminary report by the Department of Commerce titled "A Coordinated Attack on Poverty in the United States," containing the agency's proposals for the 1964 legislative program to combat poverty. This report was submitted to the Council of Economic Advisers in response to a request from Walter W. Heller.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF38-002
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning price increases and decreases in various industries. Items include periodic summaries of news reports on price developments; a Council of Economic Advisers briefing paper on "Recent Wage and Price Developments and Prospects in the U.S."; a Joint Economic Committee report on "Government Price Statistics"; and an article titled "Price Level Changes and Financial Statements at the Threshold of the New Frontier" by Abraham J. Briloff.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF38-001
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning prices in general. Types of items include memoranda, tables, data, and news articles. Topics include price stability and trends, inflation, and the prices of certain goods. There is also a Council of Economic Advisers staff memorandum titled "The Outlook for Stability in 1964 - A Second Look."
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF37-017
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning population policies. Only two items pertain directly to the Policy Committee on the Current Population Survey. The other items are memoranda on aspects of population growth and population change, such as a summary of "Federal Government Research Involving Social and Economic Impacts of Demographic Factors."
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF37-016
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning President Johnson's Message on Poverty. There are final copies of the speech, various drafts and notes by Heller and others, and related memoranda. The file also includes testimony before the House Committee on Education and Labor by both Heller and Sargent Shriver, and a speech by Heller at the Conference on Poverty and Affluence in the United States.
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.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF37-014
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning poverty, mainly news clippings and magazine articles. There are also some memoranda, letters, charts, notes, and drafts. Items include two Council of Economic Advisers memoranda, one by Robert J. Lampman titled "An Offensive Against Poverty," with general thoughts on a potential Kennedy anti-poverty program (June 1963), and one by Burton A. Weisbrod titled "Some Reflections Regarding the Attack on Poverty" (March 1964). Other items of note include Congressional testimony by W. Willard Wirtz and Anthony J. Celebrezze; a report on "Poverty in America" from the National Policy Committee on Pockets of Poverty; and an unattributed memorandum of specifications for a bill to combat poverty (January 1964).
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF37-013
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning poverty in general. Types of items include memoranda, papers, press releases, and news clippings. Of note are an address by Sargent Shriver at the 165th commencement of Georgetown University (1964); a paper titled "A Skeptic's View of the War on Poverty" by Lowell E. Gallaway; a Council of Economic Advisers staff memorandum titled "An Income-Asset Measure of Poverty - Some Tentative Results and Some Implications for Social Welfare Policy"; a speech titled "Prognosis for Poverty" by Robert J. Lampman; and a draft bibliography on poverty in the United States prepared by Robert L. Olson of the Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF37-012
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning H.R. 10440, the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. Types of items include memoranda, drafts, and a statement given by C. Lowell Harriss during the Congressional hearings.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF37-011
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning the Posthuma Plan for reforming the international monetary system, which was proposed by S. Posthuma of the Netherlands Bank.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF37-010
This folder contains a paper by Seymour E. Harris titled "We Might Just as Well Have Had Four More Years of Eisenhower (Nixon)," which was a response to articles by Oscar Gass in Commentary magazine. There is also a letter from Walter W. Heller to Harris regarding the paper.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF37-009
This folder contains one article by Seymour E. Harris titled "President Kennedy's Economics," which was published in The New Republic.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF37-008
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning petroleum. There is one exchange of correspondence with the American Petroleum Institute, and one memorandum regarding petroleum depletion laws.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF37-007
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning the Passamaquoddy tidal power project and the Upper Saint John River hydroelectric power project. Most items relate to the work of the Army-Interior Advisory Board on the Passamaquoddy and Upper Saint John River.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF37-006
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning oil. Items include a memorandum of recommendations from the Petroleum Study Committee, and a working paper on Soviet petroleum exports by the Oil Task Force.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF37-005
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning ocean freight shipping rates. Items include a paper by the Department of Commerce on ocean freight rates and the balance of payments.