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- of President Kennedy.
And you talked about the
formation of the budget at that point in time and how you worked with
Lyndon Johnson.
According to the books written about this event, there is the
idea that Lyndon Johnson worked very hard to keep this budget
- there officially until 1962?
G:
Until 1962, that's right.
M:
Now, someplace in here you must have come into contact with John F.
Kennedy.
G:
Oddly enough, I had very little contact with John F. Kennedy . . I met him,
LBJ Presidential Library
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- something about your appointment to
the Bureau of the Budget.
G:
I was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers.
President Kennedy in January 1961.
I came in with
I had planned to serve for two
years as a member of the Council and to return to my
- in the fields of social welfare.
My impression is that President Johnson was looking for a tag to describe
his major legislative accomplishments, purposes, to correspond to
Kennedy's New Frontier.
My re~ollection is that the phrase Great Society
came out