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  • obviously came from the Soviet Troika, suggested by the Treasury Department, as I recall. So here was the Troi ka. It was these three agencies. You probabJy know the structure of it. In addition, it had three layers: staff layer; a council-member
  • that the bureau is the President's chief supervisory agency over the departments? S: Yes, particularly in the domestic area. Much less so, for all sorts of reasons, in the military-foreign affairs area, although it is to a lesser extent true there also
  • Biographical information; the Eisenhower, JFK and LBJ Administrations and the Council of Economic Advisers; new economics; Troika; tax cut; contact with Congress on economic matters; Appalachia program; SST; Agriculture Department budget
  • as injected into domestic economic affairs, within the administration it had to be the Treasury. Although the nominal description of my position as under secretary for monetary affairs was really to handl e the Treasury's debt management, its relations
  • Biographical information; Federal Reserve Bank; new economics; Treasury Department; Organization for Economic Cooperation; Organization for European Cooperation and Development; working parties; Group of Ten; ring of swaps; London Gold Pool; Robert
  • many economists agree with me on this; but I would do everything I could to reduce or even eliminate the independence of the Federal Reserve. F: Well now, you had four main groups. You had the Department of Treasury, you had the Bureau
  • politicians and sex drive. I don't know, you look at Franklin Roosevelt, they talk about here's a man with polio who was having an affair with Lucy Winchester [Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd]. Sparkman was a ladies' man. Oh, yes. John I don't know whether you know