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This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the President's News Conference of March 15, 1961 (News Conference 7). President Kennedy began the press conference with several brief announcements concerning small business participation in defense contracts, the construction of the Libby Dam in Montana on the Columbia River, the Export-Import Bank's authorization of a credit in favor of the Government of Israel for the purchase of agricultural machinery, and the President's Conference on Heart Disease and Cancer. Following the announcements the President answered questions from the press on a variety of topics including nuclear disarmament, federal aid to education, and congressional support for the President's New Frontier legislative program. Items consist of the official White House transcript of the press conference and the stenotype transcript of the press conference.

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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 appropriations for the OCDM (Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization); the organization of civil defense programs; a budget outlook for 1962-1966; the construction of two new buildings in Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C.; and congressional actions on appropriation bills for 1962.

This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Labor draft bill defining the term "wages" under the Davis-Bacon Act, relating to the rate of wages for laborers and mechanics employed by contractors and subcontractors on public buildings in the United States and the District of Columbia. The file also includes misfiled material on another bill, H.R. 1163, to amend section 510 of the Interstate Commerce Act.

This folder contains material pertaining to requests for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on various enrolled bills. Also included is a list of unenacted and pending legislative proposals and their status as of 13 October 1962; a summary of the pending legislation workload as of 15 June 1962; and a copy of the Treasury Department's legislative program for 87th Congress, 2nd Session (September 1961). The file also contains possibly misfiled material related to a meeting with representatives of the building trades at the Construction Industry Joint Conference (16 March 1962), including data on various aspects of the construction industry.

This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill S. 1304, to provide for a program of civil works program in economically distressed areas.

This folder contains copies of Senator John F. Kennedy's speech before the United States Senate regarding the Boston Army Base pier in South Boston, Massachusetts. In his speech the Senator discusses the economic and military value of the pier, and proposes a bill to rehabilitate the pier and maintain its current operation under the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning legislation to establish a standby capital improvements program. Types of items include correspondence, memoranda, reports, speeches, and press releases. Related work products of the Council of Economic Advisers include a draft of a proposed bill to authorize a capital improvements program during periods of rising unemployment; a paper on "Output and Employment Effects of Stand-by Expenditures"; and a background memorandum jointly written with the Bureau of the Budget regarding the proposed standby capital improvements authority. Other materials of note are copies of the Congressional testimony of Heller, David E. Bell, Arthur J. Goldberg, Gerhard Colm, and Charles H. Stoddard; analysis of the inventory of federal construction projects and other work submitted pursuant to the President's economic message of 2 February 1961; and a memorandum on the 1962 economic situation by George Meany of the AFL-CIO.