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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.
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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.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF16-020
This folder contains correspondence and memoranda between Walter W. Heller and Seymour E. Harris, Senior Consultant to the Secretary of the Treasury and professor of economics at University of California, San Diego, and Harvard University. Enclosures include an article by N. Pattabhi Raman titled "Private Investment vs. Foreign Aid"; nine papers from a symposium on the federal budget that were published in The Review of Economics and Statistics (vol. XLV, no. 2, May 1963); and a paper by Harris on "The American Economy."
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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-090-001
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 the embargo on Cuba, a compensatory financing proposal, the establishment of a narcotics working group, a meeting between the President and the Advisory Committee on Banking to the Comptroller of the Currency. Also included in this folder is a summary of a conversation regarding economic issues between the President and Senior Consultant to the Secretary of the Treasury Seymour E. Harris.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-030-008
This folder consists of correspondence between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and economist, economic advisor to President Kennedy and Harvard Professor Seymour E. Harris. Materials mainly consist of Harris' views and advice on both economic and fiscal policy, clippings, and letters of a personal nature. Of note are materials relating to a letter Harris sent to the editor of the Wall Street Journal regarding inflation and the economic goals of the Kennedy Administration; and a draft of an article by Harris on President Kennedy's proposed trade program titled "The President's Economic and Trade Program."
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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."