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OCR Page 1 of 45THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
February 24, 1970
ACTION
Secretary Shultz's Proposal for a
Task Force on the Procedures of
Monetary and Fiscal Policy
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
I have attached a memorandum from Secretary Shultz (Tab A)
in which he recommends the establishment of a Cabinet level
Task Force on the Procedures of Monetary and Fiscal Policy.
Secretary Shultz's recommendation deals with two problems
which are related but not identical. The first is the problem
of establishing priorities in federal decisions affecting the uses
of the national output. The second is the problem of managing
monetary-fiscal-wage-price policies to maintain reasonable
economic stability. The link between them is that failure to make
clear-cut - priorities decisions leaves us constantly facing excessive
and unranked claims on the budget and the national output which
either threaten inflation or require a degree of monetary restraint
which no one wants.
Comments on Secretary Shultz's proposal have been received from
Dr. McCracken, Dr. Burns, Secretary Kennedy, Dr. Moynihan,
Bryce Harlow, Peter Flanigan and Martin Anderson. Their general
consensus is reflected in the recommendations which I have listed
directly below.
RECOMMENDATIONS
1.
The establishment of priorities: this matter is already under
study by a Subcommittee of the Cabinet Committee on Economic
Policy. Recommend that we await the Subcommittee's report
on March 15 before any further action is taken.
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