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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Lee C. White
JFKWHSFLCW-019-011
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Lee C. White
JFKWHSFLCW-019-010
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF42-019
This folder contains material related to the legislative plans of various agencies for the 87th Congress, 2nd Session, which began in January 1962. In addition to information from the Council of Economic Advisers, there are also proposed legislative programs submitted by the Post Office Department, Civil Service Commission, United States Information Agency, General Services Administration, Panama Canal Zone Government, Department of Justice, Federal Communications Commission, Department of Labor, and Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-026
This folder contains one letter pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Health, Education and Welfare draft bill entitled the National Education Act of 1963.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-021
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Health, Education and Welfare draft bill entitled Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963, which would provide for assistance in the construction and initial operation of community mental health centers.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-020
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Health, Education and Welfare draft bill entitled the Mental Retardation Planning and Facilities Act of 1963, which would assist states in combating mental retardation through comprehensive planning for state and community action and through construction of research centers and facilities for the mentally retarded.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Harris Wofford
JFKWHSFHW-004-015
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Harris Wofford
JFKWHSFHW-012-002
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Harris Wofford
JFKWHSFHW-010-012
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF35-022
This folder contains one memorandum concerning the work of the Task Force on Mental Health.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF23-007
This folder contains Walter W. Heller's correspondence with the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). Types of material include letters, memoranda, reports, speeches, and charts. Correspondents include Wilbur J. Cohen (Assistant Secretary), Francis Keppel (Commissioner of Education), Anthony J. Celebrezze (Secretary of HEW), and Abraham Ribicoff (Secretary of HEW). The file also contains a revised draft presidential message on health, written jointly by the Council of Economic Advisers and the Bureau of the Budget; a statement by the Consumer Advisory Council concerning the Citizens Committee (Harvey Committee) report on the Food and Drug Administration; an unattributed article for the New Republic on the state of the nation's health; highlights of HEW activities for fiscal year 1961; a paper titled "Indicators of National Developments That Will Affect Future Health, Education, and Welfare Activities" (August 1961); and a draft paper on education and economic growth.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-011
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a revised draft bill submitted by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare entitled the Senior Citizens Act of 1963. This bill would provide assistance in the development of new or improved programs to help older persons through grants to the States for community planning, services, research, construction of activity centers, and so on.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF40-028
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Health, Education, and Welfare draft bill to authorize the Bureau of Federal Credit Unions to invest moneys of the special fund, and to allow Federal credit unions greater flexibility in their organization and operations. The bill was later enrolled as H.R. 8459.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF43-001
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Health, Education, and Welfare draft bill to authorize the Commissioner of Education to assist public and other nonprofit institutions of higher education in financing the construction, rehabilitation, or improvement of needed academic and related facilities, to authorize the Commissioner to award scholarships for study in such institutions, and to authorize additional financing of faculty and student housing and other educational facilities under the college housing program. Another version of the bill authorized a three-year program of Federal financial assistance for public elementary and secondary schools, and amended Public Law 81-815 and Public Law 81-874. The legislation was known as the School Assistance Act of 1961. The file also includes drafts of a presidential message on education.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF44-005
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) draft bill to extend and improve the public assistance and child welfare services programs of the Social Security Act. The legislation was known as the Public Welfare Amendments of 1962. The file also includes another HEW draft bill to improve the quality of elementary and secondary education, called the Improvement of Educational Quality Act of 1962.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF44-004
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Health, Education, and Welfare draft of drug nomenclature standardization provisions and related amendments to the labeling provisions of the Food and Drug Act.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-341-003
This file contains a copy of National Security Action Memoranda number 243 (NSAM 243) titled, “Survey Mission for the U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands,” to Secretary of State Dean Rusk; Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara; Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) Anthony J. Celebrezze; the High Commissioner of the U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Maurice W. Goding; Director of the Peace Corps R. Sargent Shriver; Administrator of the Agency for International Development (AID) David Bell; and the Governor of Guam Manuel F.L. Guerrero from President John F. Kennedy. Also included is a report in response to NSAM 243.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-340-023
This file contains copies of National Security Action Memoranda number 235 (NSAM 235) titled, “Large-Scale Scientific or Technological Experiments with Possible Adverse Environmental Effects,” to Secretary of State Dean Rusk; Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara; Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall; Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges; Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) Anthony J. Celebrezze; Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Glenn T. Seaborg; Administrator for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) James E. Webb; Director of the National Science Foundation Alan Tower Waterman; Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs McGeorge Bundy; and Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Jerome B. Wiesner from President John F. Kennedy.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-340-017
This file contains a copy of National Security Action Memoranda number 229 (NSAM 229) titled, “Pacific Trust Territories,” to Secretary of State Dean Rusk; Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara; Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall; and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) Anthony J. Celebrezze from President John F. Kennedy.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-338-003
This file contains a draft and copies of National Security Action Memoranda number 176 (NSAM 176) titled, “Release of Public Information Concerning Soviet Nuclear Tests,” to Secretary of State Dean Rusk; Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) Anthony J. Celebrezze; Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John McCone; Director of the Office of Emergency Planning (OEP) Edward McDermott; Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Glenn T. Seaborg; Director of the United States Information Agency (USIA) Edward R. Murrow; Administrator for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) James E. Webb; and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Jerome B. Wiesner from McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-329-017
This folder contains a copy of National Security Action Memoranda number 42 (NSAM 42) titled, “Assistance to Cuban Refugees,” to Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) Abraham Ribicoff and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Allen Dulles from McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Pre-Presidential Papers. Senate Files
JFKSEN-0411-014
This folder contains constituent correspondence received by Senator John F. Kennedy's office that pertains to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Topics include federal grants for Massachusetts schools and hospitals, and the fluoridation of the water supply in Springfield, Massachusetts. Publications include a copy of the Report of the Task Force on the Handicapped to the Chairman of the Manpower Policy Committee, Office of Defense Mobilization (January 1952); the 1952 Annual Report of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, a division of the Federal Security Agency; and Doing Something for the Disabled by Mary E. Switzer and Howard A. Rusk (Pamphlet No. 197), published by the Public Affairs Committee.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-336-011
This file contains a copy of National Security Action Memoranda number 155 (NSAM 155) titled, "Emergency Medical Program for Vietnam," to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Abraham Ribicoff from McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-336-001
This file contains a copy of National Security Action Memoranda number 145 (NSAM 145) titled, "New Policy for the U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands," to Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall; Secretary of State Dean Rusk; Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara; and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Abraham Ribicoff from President John F. Kennedy. Also included are memoranda regarding a rescission of Executive Order 8683, under which the United States Navy exercised entry control into the Guam Island Naval Defensive Sea and Airspace Reservation.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-079a-005
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW). Topics include health insurance for the elderly, the President’s Award for Scholarship, and radiation protection activities of Federal agencies. Also included in this folder is a report by Secretary of HEW Anthony J. Celebrezze on the cost reduction program and an article in Fortune magazine by Harold B. Meyers titled, “Medicare, the Cure that Could Cause a Setback.”