Go to main content

PDF

Description

`Alice Rivlin earned her Ph.D. in economics from Radcliffe College in 1958. In 1975 she became the first director of the Congressional Budget Office, a position she held until 1983. Dr. Rivlin was appointed to two key positions by President Clinton: as director of the Office of Management and Budget in 1994 and as vice chair of the Federal Reserve in 1996. Dr. Rivlin also served on President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. In this brief but wide-ranging interview, Dr. Rivlin offers her perspective on the changing importance of budget deficits and national debt since the Second World War.

Details

Title
Alice Rivlin: Director, CBO, 1975-1983 Director, OMB, 1994-1996
Creator
Rivlin, Alice, interviewee
Meeker, Martin, interviewer
Sharma, Patrick, interviewer
Published
Berkeley, CA, Regional Oral History Office, 2011
Full Collection Name
Slaying the Dragon of Debt: US Fiscal Politics and Policy Oral Histories
Subject (Topic)
Politics, Law, and Policy
Type
Text
Format
Oral histories.
Archive
The Bancroft Library Oral History Center
Note
Rivlin, Alice. "Alice Rivlin: Director, CBO, 1975-1983 Director, OMB, 1994-1996." Interview by Martin Meeker and Patrick Sharma in 2011. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2011.
Interview date(s) 2011
Usage Statement
Researchers may make free and open use of the UC Berkeley Library’s digitized public domain materials. However, some materials in our online collections may be protected by U.S. copyright law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use (Title 17, U.S.C. § 107) requires permission from the copyright owners. The use or reproduction of some materials may also be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, privacy and publicity rights, or trademark law. Responsibility for determining rights status and permissibility of any use or reproduction rests exclusively with the researcher. To learn more or make inquiries, please see our permissions policies (https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center/projects?section=permissions).
Linked Resources
Project website
Collection

Files

Statistics

from
to
Export
Download Full History
Download
Formats
Format
BibTeX
MARCXML
TextMARC
MARC
DublinCore
EndNote
NLM
RefWorks
RIS
Add to Basket