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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to vote for Lyndon Johnson for the presidency, and he was staying with the Minnesota delegation at the Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. I had gone there to interview several members of the Iowa delegation, and Gene was at the top of the escalator. And he
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Senator Johnson, and the popularity of the highway program on both sides, I think we got some Republican votes like George Aiken and Leverett Saltonstall, people like that who voted contrary to the wishes of the administration. G: At the time these votes
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was even mad at you for supporting the other position. B: There is absolutely no doubt about that. than I was to Senator Johnson. I was closer to Senator Kerr When he had read the headlines of the morning Los Angeles Times extra edition, that Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lucas had a tough race because Dirksen had tremendous popular support, newspaper support, and Illinois was a state that could go either way, but Senator Myers' defeat was a big shock. Senator [Richard] Russell at this particular time had more votes
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a very powerful committee and as time went by they had jurisdiction over civil rights legislation. But the significance of Price Daniel going on the Judiciary Committee over Governor Lehman was basically a civil rights fight. I think this one move
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the time I was about three months old until I left there in December of 1942, when I was fourteen. G: You began in the Senate as a page, I understand. B: Yes. I was appointed as a page boy by the late Burnett Maybank, whom Franklin Roosevelt, our late
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Stevenson might say or do, especially in view of the tidelands issue at this particular time. As you will recall, Stevenson publicly announced that he was opposed to the giveaway of the tidelands, and I think that was his position. Notwithstanding