Biographical information; Hodges’ resignation; John Connor; Sandy Trowbridge; Howard Samuels; C.R. Smith; Andrew Brimmer; Herb Holloman; Commerce internal management problems; effectiveness of Commerce Secretary; Georgetown group of Kennedy people; Cissy McQuade; LBJ’s famous phone calls; Califano; LBJ’s staff; Punta del Este speech; Bill Roth; Kennedy Round; Maurice Stands; “The American Establishment;” Wilbur Cohen; impact of the Commerce Department; New England foreign trade zone; Secretary Smith; Labor-Commerce merger; Bill Wirtz; wage/price guidelines; Walter Heller; LBJ’s influence over labor; Bill Martin; Labor Management Advisory Committee; balance of payments; exhilaration of LBJ’s informal talk; Bill Shaw; voluntary and mandatory program; Office of Foreign Direct Investment; Tony Soloman; Joe Fowler; Trading with the Enemy Act; East-West trade; COCUM; Rusk; bridge building speech of Oct 1966; China epidemic; Senator McIntyre