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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Committee with him were an absolutely outstanding group of senators. It was because of their prestige and their power and their impression with the news media that we were able to start a space. program. Jack Kennedy never did understand what space
  • Tidelands legislation; admission of Alaska and Hawaii as states; East-West Center in Honolulu; space program; Senate committee assignments; Estes Kefauver, John Kennedy, and the Foreign Relations Committee; 1960 Democratic National Convention; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Baker -- IV -- 6 Kennedy for the presidency in 1960 and overhearing some of the conversations with Governor Stevenson. Johnson's reaction, to me, I think Johnson felt
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • him in his presidential race in 1960, because it was remarkable, the almost unanimous southern support he had with the exception, say, of the younger governors like Governor [Ernest] Hollings of South Carolina, who was for Kennedy, Governor [James
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Angeles in 1960, it was Wyoming, when they cast all their votes, that put President Kennedy in as the nominee. Lester Hunt was very influential in the West then. But He was good on that committee. G: Kefauver was on that, too. B: Yes. G: Did he
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the big industrial states, including Texas, California, New Jersey, Michigan, Ohio, and New York. So when Stevenson got the nomination, then S e n a t o Gore wanted to be vice president, Senator Kefauver wanted to be vice president, Senator Kennedy wanted
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • what your position was or why you wanted him to work with you. on Medicare. I can never forget till the day I die when they came I really had a great affection for the late President John Kennedy, but he had never been able to pass any bills, because
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)