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Which presidents did Paul Samuelson advise?

  • John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson

  • Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan

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Paul Samuelson advised John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, two Democratic presidents who both served in the 1960s. Samuelson was a Nobel Prize-winning economist who was a strong advocate for Keynesian economics, a school of thought that argues that the government should play a role in regulating the economy in order to prevent recessions and unemployment.
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