Parents; Columbia University, BA 1928; legislative assistant, 1933-37, advisor, 1938-46 to Senator Robert F. Wagner; New Deal legislation including drafting of National Industrial Recovery Act, housing acts, Wagner Act, 1935; member Wardman Park Group, 1946-52; Vice Chairman and Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors: comparison of Council of Edonomic Advisors, 1946-52 to Council of Economic Adviso rs of the 1970s; passage of Humphrey-Hawkins Bill; evaluation and comparison of Presidents Roosevelt and Truman and their Cabinets and advisors; views of federal economic policy through the Carter administration: function and policies of Federal Reserve Board, wage and price controls, relationship of unemployment and interest rates to inflation, taxation; impressions of Robert F. Wagner, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman
Government executives; Economists; New Deal, 1933-1939; United States Politics and government 1933-1945; United States Politics and government 1945-1989; Keyserling, Leon H. (Leon Hirsch), 1908-1987; Council of Economic Advisers (U.S.)