The Great Depression and the Great Recession in the North Atlantic 2015 McKenna Lecture :: Claremont-McKenna College Back in 1959 Arthur Burns, lifelong senior Republican policymaker, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Eisenhower, good friend of and White House Counselor to President Nixon, and Chair of the Federal Reserve from 1970 to … Continue reading The Great Depression and the Great Recession in the North Atlantic