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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF32-003
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning the Employment Act of 1946, which established the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). Section 4 of the law was updated to remove the limit on salary appropriations for CEA members and staff. The file includes the text of the Employment Act of 1946 as amended, and a narrative history of the Act from 1946 to 1961.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF40-001
This folder contains a reverse chronological run of outgoing letters by Walter W. Heller and other Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) staff in response to requests for the CEA's views and comments on proposed legislation. Also included is a copy of S.J. Res. 105, to authorize the appointment of a Presidential Commission on Automation, which is likely misfiled.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF38-022
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.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF38-016
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning the Quality Stabilization Act (S. 774 and H.R. 3669). Types of items include correspondence and excerpts from the Congressional Record. Of note are two versions of an analysis by the Council of Economic Advisers titled "Probable Effects of the Proposed Quality Stabilization Act on Prices, Incomes, Employment, and Production."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF38-005
This folder contains materials concerning the 1964 legislative program to combat poverty. There is feedback from the Department of the Interior on the poverty program proposed by the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) and the Bureau of the Budget, with attached memoranda by the Bureau of Indian Affairs regarding programs to attack poverty on reservations, as well as an overview titled "Indians and Poverty." Next there is information from the Department of Agriculture on their anti-poverty proposals and cost estimates. There is also a handwritten spreadsheet for budget reconciliation of the total legislative program and the poverty program, and a copy of the CEA report to Theodore Sorensen regarding recommendations for making the "Attack on Poverty" a central feature of the 1964 legislative program.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF43-064
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) on enrolled bill H.R. 6094, to amend section 4 of the Employment Act of 1946, in order to remove the statutory limitation on salaries for the CEA.