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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • expressed when he came back? B: You know, in reading your notes I think that the wisdom of people like Senator George and of what I call the elder statesmen was able to help guide Eisenhower through this period. You got to remember now, Chiang Kai-shek
  • ; drinking among senators; Grace Tully; LBJ’s problems with kidney stones; Chiang Kai-shek; tax bill controversy; foreign policy issues; John Foster Dulles; Clinton Anderson
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Chiang Kai-shek on the brain .. Chiang Kai-shek bought more Republican politicians than any foreign leader in the history of the country. He would take our foreign aid and he'd slip campaign contributions--like, you know, Senator [Styles] Bridges
  • Steve Mitchell; the oil business; drought relief; President Eisenhower; foreign aid; Chiang Kai-Shek; Bricker Amendment; Senator Walter George; Allan Shivers; the 1954 Senate election; Dixon-Yates controversy; Taft-Hartley amendments; Pat McCarran