The largest subseries of Office, Office Management, includes a variety of material consisting of index card files, correspondence, receipts, calendars, and datebooks. This subseries reflects the filing systems and operational organization of Fong’s Senate office. The various sets of card files reflect the highly detailed recordkeeping that Fong expected from his staff. Interoffice Correspondence includes memoranda and correspondence, but the bulk of the subseries consists of telecopier messages (a predecessor of the facsimile), which were exchanged on a daily basis between Fong’s Washington and state offices from the early 1970s on. These messages show the daily activities of both offices, the Senator’s travels between Hawaii and Washington, and the general division of labor among staff members.

The Correspondence subseries includes Non-Issue mail, comprised of congratulatory and condolence letters to constituents, as well as constituent mail on a variety of non-legislative matters. Also found here is VIP Correspondence. This includes Fong’s communications with U.S. presidents, vice presidents, Congressional colleagues, diplomats, high-ranking government officials, foreign dignitaries such as Chiang Kai-Shek, and other well-known public figures such as Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Duke Kahanamoku. The Recommendations sub-subseries includes the small amount of material found relating to Fong’s patronage positions. The Almanac of American Politics (1976, p. 207) noted that Fong was “known for his assiduous fights for his choices for various patronage posts.”

Voting Records contains mostly bound copies of voting information sheets published by the Senate, but also includes staff-compiled lists of Fong’s own sponsored and cosponsored measures.

Trip Files include brochures, books, clippings, correspondence, itineraries, and scrapbooks relating to some of Fong’s international travels during his Senate career.

Information on Military Academies demonstrates the procedure by which Senate offices nominated candidates to the service academies, such as West Point and the U.S. Naval Academy. The material mostly consists of brochures, applications, and correspondence with the academies; lists of Fong’s nominees are also present. All personal material about applicants, including medical records, grade reports, and test scores, has been redacted.

The Scrapbooks subseries is made up of scrapbooks that were generally compiled by the office staff. The scrapbooks include clippings relating to Fong and a smaller amount of correspondence and other material. Additional clippings can be found in the Public Relations series.

Staff Files include only those explicitly labeled as such. They incorporate Alyce Thompson’s work at the Senate Republican Policy Committee, 1955-1959. Mrs. Thompson eventually became Fong’s Administrative Assistant in the Senate office (see Congressional Staff Directory listings for per-Congress changes).