Roger Freeman, Presidential Adviser

STANFORD, Calif. - Roger A. Freeman, an economist who advised presidents Eisenhower and Nixon and was a fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution at Stanford, has died at age 87.

Mr. Freeman died Wednesday of stomach cancer, according to the institution, where Mr. Freeman was a senior fellow emeritus.

An expert in public finance, Mr. Freeman was a presidential assistant in the Eisenhower and Nixon administrations, among other government posts.

He worked to slow or reverse the trend of Washington assuming central control and financing for education, welfare and other domestic services.

Born in Vienna, Mr. Freeman moved to the United States from Austria in 1939. Two weeks after Mr. Freeman's arrival in New York, he wrote an article on chain-store merchandising that landed him a management job at the W.L. Douglas Shoe Co.

He became a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in 1962.

Survivors include a son, Roger Freeman Jr., and a daughter, Christine Freeman.