Reminiscences of Leon H. Keyserling, 1979

Biographical Note

Lawyer, economist, government official

Scope and Contents

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 Advisors 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

Subjects

• Council of Economic Advisers (U.S.)
• Economists--Interviews.
• Edwin, Ed, interviewer.
• Government executives--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Keyserling, Leon H. (Leon Hirsch), 1908-1987--Interviews.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1984