1. Robert S. McNamara - OSD Historical Office
The president's announcement of McNamara's move to the World Bank stressed his stated interest in the job and that he deserved a change after seven years as ...
January 21, 1961 – February 29, 1968Defense issues, including the missile gap, played a prominent role in the campaign of 1960. President-elect Kennedy, very much concerned with defense matters
2. NSC-68, 1950 - Office of the Historian
Reeling from the recent victory of Communist forces in the Chinese Civil War and the successful detonation of an atomic weapon by the Soviet Union, Secretary ...
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3. Henry H. Fowler (1965 - 1968) - U.S. Department of the Treasury
Henry H. Fowler (1908 - 2000) had spent much of his time with Congress promoting the passage of the Kennedy Administration's tax reform program.
As Under Secretary (1961 - 1964) to Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon, Henry H. Fowler (1908 - 2000) had spent much of his time with Congress promoting the passage of the Kennedy Administration's tax reform program. Appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Johnson, he had to face the problems of inflation and a trade deficit, both of which had been exacerbated by massive spending due to the war in Vietnam. Sec. Henry H. Fowler Irving Resnikoff as "Charles J. Fox" Oil on canvas 1964 54 1/2 x 44 1/4 x 1 1/2 P.1965.1 To spur economic growth, Fowler's immediate predecessors had administered "Keynesian" policies combining tax incentives and tax cuts. Fowler had to employ the next and less popular step in the Keynesian approach: tax increases to slow the economy and curb inflation. In order to pay the increasing expenses of the Vietnam War, Fowler lobbied and won Congressional approval for a ten- percent tax surcharge in June 1967. Another Fowler concern was the trade deficit, which had continued to grow throughout the Johnson years. He implemented a tax on foreign securities and urged corporations to place voluntary restraints on overseas investments. Fowler resigned one month before the end of Johnson's term to become a private banker. About the Artist Portraying himself as the son of a well-known Austrian artist, Leo Fox, under the pseudonym Charles J. Fox, obtained portrait commissions from many eminent members of society and the Government. In reality, Irving Resnik...

4. Joseph W. Barr (1968 - 1969) - U.S. Department of the Treasury
As Secretary, Barr coined the phrase "taxpayer's revolt" to describe the rising sentiment, in and out of Congress, for tax reform.
As Under Secretary (1965 - 1968) to Secretary of the Treasury Henry H. Fowler, Joseph W. Barr (1918 - 1996) was the Johnson Administration spokesman before Congress. When Fowler resigned in December 1968, Barr was appointed Secretary to serve the remaining month of President Johnson's incumbency. He was characterized by a New York Times reporter as "a kind of Rexford Guy Tugwell of New Deal days who does not accept that the law of supply and demand is an immutable economic dictum that must work at all times and in all circumstances." As Secretary, Barr coined the phrase "taxpayer's revolt" to describe the rising sentiment, in and out of Congress, for tax reform. Sec. Joseph W. Barr Casimir Gregory Stapko Oil on canvas 1969 55 1/2 x 45 1/2 x 1 1/2" P.1969.1 A later Secretary, William Simon, said of Barr that he was the first to realize that the tax system was too complicated for normal individuals. Barr resigned at the end of Johnson's term to become President of the American Security Trust Company in Washington. About the Artist Born in Milwaukee in 1913, Casimir Gregory Stapko (1913 - 2006) quit school after the eighth grade and apprenticed himself to an artist who specialized in decorating churches. After spending several years adorning clerical walls, laying mosaic floors, and painting murals, Stapko found work as a copyist. In the 1940's he was hired by New York publishers of fine-art books to make copies of masterpieces hanging in the National Gallery of Art in Washingto...

5. U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive, 1968
The Tet Offensive played an important role in weakening US public support for the war in Vietnam.
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6. [PDF] SEcREtARiES oF - OSD Historical Office
The 1947 National Security Act (P.L. 80-253) created the position of Secretary of Defense with authority to establish general policies and programs for the ...
7. International Committee for the History of Technology
ICOHTEC was founded in Paris in 1968 when bitterness divided the nations in the Eastern and Western worlds. ... The first Secretary-General was Maurice ...
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8. History of NTID | National Technical Institute for the Deaf | RIT
1968. Dr. William E. Castle is appointed as assistant to the vice president and director of NTID. A pilot group of 70 deaf students arrive at RIT, which ...
A workshop titled "Improved Vocational Opportunities for the Deaf" is held at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The workshop endorses a proposal for the establishment of a National Technical Institute for the Deaf.