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  • to vote for Lyndon Johnson for the presidency, and he was staying with the Minnesota delegation at the Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. I had gone there to interview several members of the Iowa delegation, and Gene was at the top of the escalator. And he
  • -- 3 finally, at that time, the Bell-Dillon-Heller layer. This served both as a kind of factual agent to give the President something like a quarterly review--I don't know that we were quite that systematic but that was the objective--of the economic
  • : Majored in economics, M.A. in 1950, Ph.D. much later, ten years later at the University of f·iaryldlld, gotten part-time while vwrk-ing at the Council of Economic Advisers. M: And your Ph.D. also in economics? S: In economics, risht. I spent rt;ost
  • : I was born the twenty-first of June, 1918, in Marquette, Michigan. My father was at that time the principal of the high school there, and he later, when I was two years old, moved down to the Detroit area. When I was four he moved to River Rouge
  • to step into the breach with tight money and really slowed the economy down consid­ erably; so much so that 1967 became the year of the famous "mini­ recession. II By that time, we had persuaded the President to propose a tax increase