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Focuses on the history of the national establishment in the U.S. Background on the bases used by the British and the French in selecting the members of their respective national establishments, which the U.S. used; Reason behind the emergence of an industrial-financial establishment in the 1890s in the U.S.; Details of the systematization of the national establishment of the country starting from the administration of President John F. Kennedy; Types of skills considered by the administration of President Lyndon Johnson in selecting the members of the establishment.

Explains that voters in the 1968 elections would go for the re-election of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson against possible Democratic challenger U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-N.Y.). Claim that any incumbent president can influence his party's state and city structure in a nomination for the second term; Criteria used in nominating a presidential candidate in political party convention; Analysis of the response of qualified voters as expressed through state primaries; Suggestion that a choice between Johnson and Kennedy would cause a serious split in organized labor.

Examines the proposals made by a committee set up by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 to investigate the structure of the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), to improve the condition of the agency. Dispersal of the functions of AID in an aim to put its loan program into the Export-Import Bank; Transfer of the agency's technical assistance projects to the Peace Corps; Consolidation of AID with the State Department.