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...materials to the Minnesota Historical Society, and took tax deductions of $199,153 for those papers dealing with his vice presidency. Former California Governor Pat Brown got a $105,000 tax write-off for giving his papers to the University of California. Former U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith gave some papers to the Kennedy Library, and took what he now feels was a "meager" deduction...
...Galbraith's name appeared on a long list of present and former public officials who have made donations to the presidential libraries managed by the General Services Administration. The list was obtained earlier this week by the Scripps-Howard News Service...
John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics, said yesterday that he took a $4500 income tax deduction for giving personal papers to the Kennedy Library...
...papers came from Galbraith's term in the Office of Price Administration during the Second World War. Also included were some of his early manuscripts. An outside appraiser placed the $4500 value on the papers, Galbraith said...
...Galbraith said his deduction "doesn't seem to be an excessive tax loophole," but he added that he thought "it is right to close these loopholes...