he aggregated the brenton wood system. he put into effect the infa mouse wage price control program, and so there were two big economic issues on the table. one was the wage price controls, and because i briefly served on the price commission, i was kind of the public face of the wage price controls when i went to the council, and the second thing was that the united states tried very hard to develop a new blueprint for the international monetary system because the system was gone. that was my field, an international economist, and i found myself serving on a group headed by paul volker trying to redesign the international monetary system, and we had an absolutely beautiful blueprint. it never got used because national politics and not just ours, but europeans -- >> sure. >> the two things that i was heavily involved in were kind of front and center in those days. also, since then, the white house, as so typical of many institutions, have kind of proliferated. now there's not only the coup sill of economic advisers, but th