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  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEW II DATE: October 31
  • Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
  • in the paper that Ike didn't know what he really was, was he a Democrat or was he a Republican, because he had been taken out of the ranks of the army military as an obscure colonel and made into the most popular military leader of World War II by his mentor
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Baker -- I -- 3 fourteen in January of 1943, which means that I met and had known and had gone through World War II with all the trials and tribulations of the war with Harry Truman and President
  • of the Preparedness Committee, because he remembered very well that during World War II Harry Truman had been selected as Roosevelt's running mate because of the reputation he made from the old War Preparedness Committee that Truman was the chairman of. I think
  • and with World War II coming to an end, you had communities that really didn't have any housing. So while the real estate people were adamant in their opposition to it, they didn't have the clout to totally defeat it. They curtailed it, but not too much. G