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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-065
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill S. 2642, to mobilize the human and financial resources of the nation to combat poverty in the United States. The legislation was known as the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-027
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Agriculture draft bill to strengthen the agricultural economy, to help achieve a fuller and more effective use of food abundances, and to provide to improved levels of nutrition among economically needy households through a program of food assistance to be operated through normal channels of trade. This legislation was known as the Food Stamp Act of 1963.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF17-016
This folder contains correspondence between Walter W. Heller and Arthur H. (Red) Motley, chairman of the board of Parade Magazine. Enclosures include a copy of a letter from Motley to Congressman John Blatnik concerning the war on poverty.
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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-MF66-003
This folder contains Walter W. Heller's correspondence with W. H. Locke Anderson, a staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers. The first part of the file consists of weekly reports submitted by Anderson from September 1963 to August 1964. The remainder is a mix of memoranda, research data, speeches, and papers by Anderson. One draft paper is titled "Trickling Down: The Relationship Between Economic Growth and the Extent of Poverty Among American Families." The folder also includes a letter and paper by economist Hans Brems.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF64-008
This folder contains correspondence that the White House referred to the Council of Economic Advisers for action, usually either a direct or draft response, from individuals whose last names begin with the letter P. The material is filed roughly in reverse chronological order according to the date of the carbon copy reply. Enclosures include two speeches by Pierre A. Rinfret on "The Business Outlook" for 1963 and 1964; a booklet by Edward A. Keller titled "Low-Income Families in the United States," published by the American Economic Foundation; a program for low-income housing from the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO); and a paper by Panayot Popoff titled "The World: Today and Tomorrow."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF44-002
This folder contains a preliminary draft of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1964.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF43-045
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill S. 1922, to assist in the provision of housing for moderate and low income families, to promote orderly urban development, and to extend and amend laws relating to housing, urban renewal, and community facilities. The legislation was known as the Housing Act of 1961.