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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-KGH-01
In this interview Heath discusses her family and her childhood; how she reached her chosen career path; obstacles to her advancement because of her gender; studying at American University and at Syracuse University; myths of the “male chauvinists’ world”; taking a women’s studies course; working while in school; running a cost of living survey for the Department of Labor in Rochester, NY, and then in Richmond, VA; the Temporary Emergency Relief Administration; working with the disadvantaged during the Depression; the “great American dream”; the effectiveness of institutionalization and the rise in bureaucracy; the National Association of Deans of Women; stigmas attached to higher education; the Civil Service Commission; working during World War II with various organizations, including the Norden Company in Elmira, NY, at the bombsight plant and the United States Army; the attitude towards women in war work; and writing her dissertation and getting her doctorate, among other issues.
Collection
USDLP
Photographs, 1961-1963. Black-and-white photographs from the United States Department of Labor made during John F. Kennedy’s Presidency, featuring John F. Kennedy, Secretaries of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg and W. Willard Wirtz, and others; and images used to illustrate Department of Labor programs and initiatives.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Lee C. White
JFKWHSFLCW-020-007
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF32-005
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning the publication of employment and unemployment statistics. Types of items include memoranda, charts, and news clippings. The file also contains two issues of the Department of Labor's monthly report on the labor force (May 1962, April 1962).
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF23-011
This folder contains Walter W. Heller's correspondence with the Department of Labor. Types of material include letters, memoranda, speeches, press releases, news clippings, and charts. Correspondents include W. Willard Wirtz (Secretary of Labor), John W. Lehman (Bureau of Labor Statistics), John W. Lewis (Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor), Esther Peterson (Assistant Secretary of Labor), Robert C. Goodwin (Bureau of Employment Security), and Arthur J. Goldberg (Secretary of Labor). The file also contains suggested material for a speech on "The Year 2000"; a report of the President's Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Policy regarding pension funds and retirement programs; information for a meeting with Reiulf Steen, a member of the Norwegian parliament (26 February 1962); and a speech by Heller on "Statistics for Economic Outlook" (29 September 1961).
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF32-002
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning employment and unemployment. In addition to numerous internal Council of Economic Advisers memoranda, other items include a paper by Otto Eckstein titled "Perspectives on Employment Under Technical Change"; various U.S. Department of Labor press releases and monthly labor force reports; a draft discussion paper by Albert Rees on the nature of the unemployment problem; and a paper by R. A. Gordon titled "Some Comments on Employment Policy in Europe and the United States."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF75-001
This folder contains material pertaining to the President's Committee on Corporate Pension Funds and Other Private Retirement and Welfare Programs, which was formally established in March 1962 to review legislation and public policy relating to those programs. Walter W. Heller represented the Council of Economic Advisers on the committee. The bulk of the file consists of a final draft of the committee's report, Fulfilling the Promise of the Private Pension System (May 1964), and a previous provisional report submitted to the President in November 1962. An assessment by the President's Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Policy (December 1963) appears as an appendix to the final report. Other types of material include correspondence, memoranda, and charts. Also of note are a report by the U.S. Department of Labor on private pension plans and manpower policy, and minutes from the committee's meeting on 1 November 1962.
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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-081-014
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of Labor. Topics include an increase to the Department of Labor's budget for 1963, the resignation of Jerry R. Holleman as Assistant Secretary of Labor, and the creation of a Liaison Advisor to the Department of State. Also included in this folder is a report to the President from the Presidential Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Policy titled, "Free and Responsible Collective Bargaining and Industrial Peace," and a report from the Board of Inquiry established under E.O. 11013 regarding the west coast maritime industry labor dispute.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-081-013
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of Labor. Topics include unemployment and employment, the maritime dispute, the steel labor negotiations settlement, and programs and legislation enacted to assist with unemployment issues and benefit the economy. Also included in this folder is a memorandum to the President from AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor, Congress of Industrial Organization) President George Meany regarding the current economic situation.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-081-006
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of Labor, and consists of a booklet titled, "Jobs and Growth," by the Conference on Economic Progress.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF87-005
This folder contains material pertaining to tax reform, tax cuts, and the tax program of the Kennedy administration. Only a small portion appears to relate to the articles and memoranda by Joseph A. Pechman on the status of tax reform and the distributional effects of tax reduction. Other items include an essay by Frazar B. Wilde titled "Some Comments on the History and Position of the Business Committee for Tax Reduction in 1963"; a booklet by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, "Tax Cut: Price of Prosperity?"; a position paper on tax policy by The Business Council's Committee on Taxation; and fact sheets on the President's tax proposals by the U.S. Department of Labor.