Okun’s background; work on the Council of Economic Advisors; how staff worked together to set up budgetary requests; comparison of Dillon’s and Heller’s views of budgetary items; “Okun’s Law”; 1964 tax reform; dealing with the Federal…
How Vietnam influenced budget requests during the war; how LBJ’s decisions were affected by all the Vietnam-related pressures on him; the LBJ to Nixon transition; wage and price controls; rationing rumors. Oral history attached to memorial…