CSPAN3 Reel America The President - January 1968 February 3, 2018
Narrator among the nations unsolved problems of 1967 was the everincreasing flow of american dollars abroad. The balance of payments deficit could easily reach 4 billion. The president , during the final days of december, called a meeting of the men most familiar with the complex problem. Men to whom he could look closest and hardest for solutions. Leading the contention was the chairman of the Federal Reserve board, followed by secretary of the treasury fowler, secretary of state, dean rusk, secretary trowbridge, the budget director charles schultz, chairman of the house ways and means commit...