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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt-everybody that was anybody in America during this, probably, darkest hour in the history of our country. January 1, 1943. But I learned my trade from I had not mastered my trade when Lyndon Johnson came there, when he was elected
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the children called him Uncle Dick or something like that. From the time Lyndon Johnson was elected senator from Texas, he made his number-one project to pay attention to the most influential United States senator, and that was Richard Brevard Russell. So
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a candidate. Everybody knew nothing was going to happen, but the end product was that Governor Stevenson made a deal with Walter Reuther, who was the president of United Automobile Workers, who had about three hundred delegates to the convention from all
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • political intelligence, his political judgment? B: No. That's a harsh, blunt answer to your question, but that's a truth- ful answer. I think Johnson, at this particular time, was very, very pro-military, very hawkish, very distrustful of the United
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was their prize baby. Because you look at what it did for Johnson's district, Roosevelt sunk more REA money in Johnson's district probably than any district in America, because of his friendship for him. You know, it showed you Johnson's genius for being
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to go back and read his speeches about what would happen, and everything they predicted has happened. The problem of most liberals in America is that they don't pay any attention to history. They never LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : I think that in any study of the history of Johnson you will see when it came to foreign policy that he was a strong, dependable, nonpartisan supporter of that program that was in the best interests of the United States. He was unflappable. And he