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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . There is a possibility that Steve Mitchell was either Adlai Stevenson's law partner or they were closely associated, but I think there was a better rapport between Johnson and Rayburn and Mitchell than there was with Stevenson, because they were always skeptical what
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on Johnson's part. This I believe I think if we knew the other side of Stevenson, had we had the association and so forth to sit down and talk like you and I are, for weeks at a time, to know their families and the way things are going, which they didn't do
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of these unani­ mous reports, with some very solid recommendations, [like] get a dollar's value for a dollar spent, and calling attention to our basic weakness in the military field . The national press and the world press paid attention to him because he
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • colleagues, both in the Senate and in the House, and I think this was very, very helpful to him politically. Talking about politics, you see the press is very critical of Governor Rockefeller right now, who's being considered to be the vice president. I have
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or a--we were able to send a lot of senators to the association of parliamentarians [Interparliamentary Union]. It was sort of where senators and congressmen got together with their colleagues in England and France and Germany and Japan, and the wives
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , I never will forget what Lyndon Johnson yelled out, he said, "What has Richard Nixon ever done for Culpeper, Virginia!" The press picked it up. He liked Lyndon Johnson, and we lost Virginia. Harry Byrd was for Nixon. But I had been in business
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this with the regular Senate dining room? B: Oh, in the regular Senate dining room you've got all the press to bother you. Another thing, see, if you used the secretary of the Senate's office, you don't have to be explaining to the press why you're there. If you