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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-CEA-01
Members of the Council of Economic Advisers discuss the Council of Economic Advisers under President Kennedy, the recession issue, the budget, and the relationship between the Treasury and Federal Reserve, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-GWB-04
Ball discusses international economic issues, including balance of payments, conflicts between the U.S. State and Treasury departments, and the steel crisis, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-CDD-09
Dillon discusses fiscal policy for the Kennedy Administration and issues with forecasting the Gross National Product, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-CDD-08
Dillon discusses the balance of payments crisis and President Kennedy’s concern over the balance of payments, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-CDD-07
Dillon discusses tax rate reduction, The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-CDD-06
Dillon discusses tax reform and the tax bills of 1962 and 1963, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-CDD-02
Dillon discusses his roles as chief financial adviser to JFK and the role of the Treasury Department in the JFK Administration,among other issues.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Lee C. White
JFKWHSFLCW-004-007
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-090a-002
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Topics include the balance of payments, taxes, the International Development Association, and a proposal for the establishment of a Committee for Inter-American Development. Also included in this folder is a collection of letters and memoranda regarding the economy from Senior Consultant to the Secretary of the Treasury Seymour E. Harris to the President and numerous memoranda from Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-090-012
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Materials include memoranda for the President from Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon titled, "Impact of Tax Reduction on the Budget," and, "Monetary Policy, the Balance of Payments, and Domestic Growth;" and the membership list as of June 1, 1963 of the Business Committee for Tax Reduction in 1963. Also included in this folder is a speech by Co-Chairman of the Business Committee for Tax Reduction in 1963 Stuart T. Saunders titled, "Taxes and Economic Growth."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-090-010
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Materials consist of a collection of memoranda and reports for the President regarding the balance of payments. Also included in this folder is a report to the President by the Cabinet Committee on the Balance of Payments and a paper by Executive Director of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) Bill Dale titled, "The Role of the IMF in a Program to Finance the U.S. External Deficit."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-090-005
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Topics include gold transactions, tax reform, the balance of payments, and proposed changes in the organizational structure of Internal Revenue Service field offices. Also included in this folder are copies of Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon's statement before the Joint Economic Committee and a speech by Under Secretary of the Treasury Henry H. Fowler titled, "The President's Tax and Expenditure Control Program- Key to Economic Policy in the Sixties."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-090-004
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Topics include tax cuts, gold, the balance of payments, the Export Expansion Program, and financial relations between the United States and France.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0915-004
This folder contains material related to John F. Kennedy's Special Message to Congress on tax reduction and reform. The folder includes advance press copies of the message and accompanying tax tables compiled by the Department of the Treasury; drafts of the message; and transcripts of a press briefing by Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon and other Treasury officials.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-089a-003
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Topics include the tax bill, the balance of payments, and an increase in resources for the International Development Association. Of note is a draft statement for the President regarding taxes and the tax bill. Also included in this folder is a copy of Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon's statement before the House Ways and Means Committee on the status of the economy.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-089a-001
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Topics include gold, taxes, the balance of payments, and Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon's meeting with bankers at the Federal Reserve of New York. Also included in this folder is a memorandum to the President from Dillon titled, "Current Monetary Policy," a memorandum to the President from Under Secretary of State George W. Ball titled, "A Fresh Approach to the Gold Problem," and copy of a speech by Dr. Roy L. Reierson of Bankers Trust Company of New York titled, "The Strength of the United States Dollar."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-089-011
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Topics include the resignation of Harry J. Anslinger as Commissioner of Narcotics, the new tax depreciation schedule, tax cut legislation, and the economy. Also included in this folder are notes, possibly written by Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon for discussing the balance of payments with the President and a transcript of Meet the Press from July 8, 1962 with Chairman and Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Per Jacobsson.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF86-006
This folder contains material pertaining to tax cuts during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Types of material include correspondence, memoranda, news articles, papers, press releases, speeches, and testimony from Congressional hearings on the tax bill. Items include a Treasury Department paper on "Social Security Financing, Taxation and Welfare, and Income Maintenance"; a paper on the effect of a $10 billion federal tax reduction on state and local tax revenues; and an article by Arthur F. Burns titled "An Economist Looks at the President's Tax Program."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF86-005
This folder contains a summary by the Treasury Department's Office of Tax Analysis of an article by Henry C. Wallich regarding the relationship between income taxes and economic growth.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF86-009
This folder contains material pertaining to President Kennedy's Special Message on Tax Reduction and Reform. Items include the final press release of the speech and accompanying tables, a transcript of a press briefing held by Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, a draft of the message by Theodore Sorensen bearing many handwritten edits, and an earlier draft by the Treasury Department.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-090a-006
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Topics include the balance of payments, gold transactions, the U.S. Industrial Payroll Savings Committee, and a plan to study the international monetary system. Of note is a letter to, and signed by, the President from Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon concerning an amendment to the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937. Also included in this folder is a memorandum to the President and summary report by Senior Consultant to the Secretary of the Treasury Seymour E. Harris on the Brookings Institute study of the balance of payments, a statement by Co-Chairmen of the Business Committee for Tax Reduction in 1963 Stuart T. Saunders and Henry Ford II before the Senate Finance Committee, an excerpt from Dillon's statement before the Committee, and a copy of a speech by Dr. Raymond J. Saulnier titled, "Policies to Accompany Tax Reduction."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-090a-004
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Topics include the balance of payments, the tax bill, and an inquiry into the payment of taxes for the yacht Argo and J. Paul Getty. Also included in this folder are memoranda for the President from economist and Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith regarding the balance of payments, and a report by the National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems concerning the proposed increase in resources of the International Development Association.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-089a-004
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury, and consists of a summary of business and press reaction to the tax depreciation revision and copies of articles from Steel magazine regarding taxes and the economy.
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HHFPP
Papers 1960-1963 (bulk 1961-1963). Microfilm copies of records created by Henry H. Fowler, Under Secretary of the Treasury, during the Kennedy administration. Agency files, alphabetical subject files, foreign country files, speeches, tax files.
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SSSPP
Papers 1960-1964 (bulk 1961-1963). Microfilm copies of records created by Stanley S. Surrey, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy, during the Kennedy administration. Legislative files for the 1962 and 1964 Revenue Acts, notes, speeches, testimony, briefing materials.