General and Financial and Monetary Policy


1. Memorandum From Secretary of the Treasury Dillon to President Johnson

Source: Johnson Library, White House Central Files, Confidential File, FI 9, Monetary Systems. Secret. Dillon transmitted this memorandum to Bill Moyers, the President’s Special Assistant, on February 3 under cover of a memorandum that stressed the importance of confidentiality in this matter: “Any leak from here would go far to destroy the spirit of confidence with which the British Treasury now deals with us and which we find very valuable.”


3. Memorandum From Secretary of the Treasury Dillon to President Johnson

Source: Johnson Library, White House Central Files, Confidential File, FO 4–1, Balance of Payments, 1963–1965. Confidential.


4. Memorandum From Secretary of the Treasury Dillon to President Johnson

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Balance of Payments, Vol. 1, November 27, 1963 thru October 31, 1964, Box 1. Limited Official Use.


5. Report From the Cabinet Committee on Balance of Payments to President Johnson

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Balance of Payments, Vol. 1, November 27, 1963 thru October 31, 1964, Box 1. Secret (With Limited Official Use Sections). The report was submitted under a cover sheet dated May 1.


6. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy) to Secretary of State Rusk, Secretary of the Fowler Treasury, and Secretary of Defense McNamara

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Balance of Payments, Vol. 1, November 27, 1963 thru October 31, 1964, Box 1. Confidential.


7. Memorandum From Secretary of the Treasury Dillon to President Johnson

Source: Johnson Library, White House Central Files, Confidential File, FO 4–1, Balance of Payments (1963–1965), Box 32–39. Confidential.


8. Letter From President Johnson to Secretary of State Rusk

Source: Department of State, Central Files, FN 12 US. No classification marking.


9. Telegram From the Embassy in France to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, FN 10. Confidential; Exdis.


10. Telegram From the Embassy in France to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, FN 10. Confidential; Exdis.


11. Memorandum From Secretary of the Treasury Dillon to President Johnson

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Trade-General, Vol. 1 [1 of 2], Box 47. Official Use Only. Copies were sent to Ball, Heller, Martin, and Bundy.


13. Telegram From Prime Minister Wilson to President Johnson

Source: Department of State, Central Files, FN 12 UK. Top Secret; Exdis. The times of transmission and receipt are illegible.


14. Telegram From President Johnson to Prime Minister Wilson

Source: Department of State, Central Files, FN 12 UK. Confidential; Exdis.


15. Circular Telegram From the Department of State to Certain Posts

Source: Department of State, Central Files, FN 12 UK. Limited Official Use; Priority; VerbatimText. Drafted by Leocade Leighton (E/OFE) on October 26; cleared by Frank M. Tucker (EUR/BNA), Joseph A. Greenwald (E/OT), Thomas E. Summers (EUR/RPE), and Widman (Treasury); and cleared by Benjamin Caplan (E/OFE). The telegram was sent to 56 posts.


16. Telegram From Prime Minister Wilson to President Johnson

Source: Department of State, Central Files, FN 12 UK. Confidential.


17. Letter From the Chairman of the Cabinet Committee on Balance of Payments (Dillon) to President Johnson

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Balance of Payments, Vol. 1, November 27, 1963 thru October 31, 1964, Box 1. No classification marking.


18. Letter From the Chairman of the Task Force on Foreign Economic Policy (Kaysen) to President Johnson

Source: Department of State, S/P Files: Lot 70 D 199, Economic Policy—1964. Secret.


19. Briefing Paper Prepared by the Department of State and the Department of the Treasury

Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 66 D 110, Visits and Conferences, 1964. Limited Official Use. Drafted by Jerome Jacobson (E), William K. Miller (OFE), Selma G. Kallis (OT), Ruth A. Gold (OR), George H. Willis (Treasury), Harold J. Shullaw (BNA), Frank M. Tucker (BNA), and Robert C. Creel (EUR), and cleared by Ammon O. Bartley (S/SS).


20. Paper Prepared for the Cabinet Committee on Balance of Payments

Source: Kennedy Library, Herter Papers, Balance of Payments (January 29, 1963 thru April 24, 1965), Box 6. Limited Official Use. The source text bears no drafting information. A copy of the paper, without the handwritten notations, is in the Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Balance of Payments, vol. 2 [2 of 2], Box 2. A December 9 covering memorandum from Dillon to the members of the Cabinet Committee on Balance of Payments is ibid. The Cabinet Committee comprised Secretaries McNamara and Hodges; Under Secretary Ball; David Bell; Christian Herter; Kermit Gordon; Gardner Ackley, Council of Economic Advisers; McGeorge Bundy; and William McChesney Martin, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The paper was distributed in preparation for an afternoon meeting with Secretary Dillon on December 9 and for a meeting with President Johnson on December 10.


21. Memorandum From the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (Ackley) to President Johnson

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Balance of Payments, Vol. 2 [2 of 2], Box 2. No classification marking.


23. Memorandum From Secretary of the Treasury Dillon to President Johnson

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Balance of Payments, Vol. 2 [2 of 2], Box 2. No classification marking.


24. Memorandum From Secretary of the Treasury Dillon to President Johnson

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Balance of Payments, Vol. 2 [2 of 2], Box 2. No classification marking.


25. Memorandum From Secretary of the Treasury Dillon to President Johnson

Source: Johnson Library, Bator Papers, Balance of Payments Message, February 10, 1965, Memos [2 of 2], Box 16. Confidential.


26. Memorandum From Secretary of the Treasury Dillon to President Johnson

Source: Johnson Library, Bator Papers, Balance of Payments Message, February 10, 1965, Memos [2 of 2], Box 16. Confidential.


27. Memorandum by the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (Ackley)

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Balance of Payments, Vol. 2 [2 of 2], Box 2. Confidential. A copy was sent to the Chairman of the Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System.


28. Memorandum From Secretary of the Treasury Dillon to President Johnson

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Balance of Payments, Vol. 2 [2 of 2], Box 2. Limited Official Use.


29. Memorandum of Conversation

[Source: Department of State, Central Files, FN 16 US. Limited Official Use. 2 pages of source text not declassified.]


30. Memorandum From the Acting Director of the U.S. Travel Service (Black) to Secretary of Commerce Connor

Source: Washington National Records Center, RG 40, Records of the Office of Fred Simpich, Assistant to Secretary of Commerce, 1965–1968: FRC 70 A 7017, Secretary’s Staff Meetings, 1965. No classification marking.