LBJ as VP; 1964 election; Secretary of the Treasury; LBJ as Chief Executive; assessment of LBJ’s personality; contact with Lady Bird; analysis of 3/31 announcement; LBJ’s faults and virtues; links with the business community; aluminum; Troika/Quadriad; FRB; Mark-Franc crisis; transfer of Coast Guard Narcotics division out of the Treasury Department; Warren Commission; Customs Service; Secretary of Treasury duties; surtax proposal; travel tax; B/P; Organization for Economic Development; Group of Ten; International Monetary Fund; 1968 Action Program Advisory Commission on International Monetary Arrangements; Joint Economic Committee; Special Drawing Rights; 1967 pound devaluation; gold crisis; 2-tier gold system; gold pool.