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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1653
USA (Visits to UK by Arthur Burns, former Chairman of Federal Reserve Board: meeting with Prime Minister, September 1979)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 61
Themes: British relations with the US, Foreign policy (USA), Monetary policy, Economic policy - theory and process

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Date Value Title
79 Aug 28 Tu Minor US: No.10 minute to FCO (“Mr Arthur Burns”) [MT should be aware “that when Mr Burns left the Federal Reserve Board he was not on the best of terms with President Carter”] [released Dec 2014]
82 Feb 22 Mo Major US: No.10 record of conversation (“Lunch with Dr. Arthur Burns on Monday 22 February 1982”) [“criticism of the Administration’s fiscal and monetary policies was likely to be counter-productive”; MT subsequently cut para from EEF speech] [released Dec 2014]
82 Feb 22 Mo Major US: No.10 briefing (“Lunch with Dr. Arthur Burns on Monday 22 February 1982”) [“criticism of the Administration’s fiscal and monetary policies was likely to be counter-productive”] [released Dec 2014]
82 Feb 22 Mo Major US: No.10 record of conversation (meeting with Dr Arthur Burns) [issues in monetary policy, including credit creation outside the banking system] [released Dec 2014]
85 Nov 29 Fr Major US: No.10 record of conversation (“Mr. Arthur Burns”) [MT “very concerned about the size of the US budget deficit”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Nov 29 Fr Major US: No.10 briefing (“Mr. Arthur Burns”) [MT “very concerned about the size of the US budget deficit”] [released Dec 2014]