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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • did. We tried to get Frear, but he had made a commitment to the doctors and he kept it. We were doing anything to keep from Clements having to cast that one vote, but Frear wouldn't agree to it. Tape 1 of 2, Side 2 G: He [Joseph McCarthy
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • lived that he probably could have been a great force for Johnson in his bid for the In 1960, as you will recall, Governor [John Joseph] Hickey presidency. was a Johnson delegate but chairman of the Wyoming delegation. But on the first ballot in Los
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , talking about he didn't know which party that the President represented. He said, "Does he represent the [William] Jenner party or the [John] Bricker party or the [Joseph] McCarthy party? Who does represent the Republican Party?" And there was a lot
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 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