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During last autumn's presidential campaign, friends invited Walter Wolfgang Heller, chairman of the University of Minnesota's economics department to attend a Democratic dinner in honor of Candidate John F. Kennedy. Heller decided to stay home. "I wasn't feeling very well," explains Heller's wife Emily, "and we were both tired. We don't mix in politics anyway." But to Emily's surprise, Heller decided after dinner to go out after all and take a look at the man who might be the next President of the U.S. As Heller approached...
...When Heller got home that night he sat down at his dictating machine and composed a memo to Kennedy elaborating on some points that had come up during their talk. Heller never met Kennedy again during the campaign, heard nothing from him until a week before Christmas, when, to Heller's astonishment, the President-elect telephoned him from Palm Beach and asked him to join the new Administration as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers...
...President. Economist Heller is an impressive man, of a type that especially impresses John Kennedy: the present-minded professor who tempers earnestness with cordiality and intellect with a touch of ambitious worldliness. In looking around for a top economist to chair the Council of Economic Advisers, Kennedy asked several economists to furnish him with lists of prospects, and Heller's name stood high on most lists, but what tipped the decision to Heller was probably that almost-never-was encounter in Minneapolis. Since the ramifications of the Federal Government's economic policies reach into every home and office...
...protocol status, Walter Heller, 45, ranks way down the list of Kennedy appointments, but in potential influence on the course of Administration policies, and on the Administration's success or failure in living up to its promises, he ranks close to the top. The chairman of the CEA wields no policymaking powers. His authority extends no further than the drab CEA offices on the third floor of Washington's ornately ugly Executive Office Building. But he has the ear of the President of the U.S. on public issues as momentous as any the nation is likely to face...
...Jack I. Heller, teaching fellow at the Law School, and John S. Saloma, teaching fellow in Political Science, will join the 15 other winners of grants from the American Political Science Association. The minimum stipend of $4,500 will permit them to engage in research and discussion, and to participate in Congressional affairs...