Troika; Quadriad; Council of Economic Advisers; administration differences; details of tax cut; trade-offs with Congress on budget cuts; Wilbur Mills; Harry Byrd; origin of tax cut; Samuelson Task Force; “new economics;” tax increases; Vietnam’s effect on the economy; LBJ’s consideration of fiscal and monetary policy, 1965; development of general principles of non-inflationary wage and price behavior, the guideposts; car prices and car wages; Heller’s resignation; executive pay increase; succession to Gardner Ackley; avenue sharing plan; general impressions.