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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I never will forget--talking on this sUbject--that Frank Ikard, who had defeated Walter Jenkins for the congressional seat from Wichita Falls, first thing Mr. Rayburn did was make certain that they made a friend out of Frank and they secured one
  • Foreign aid
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was probably the most corrupt leader in the history of the world, but our people didn't know it. He stole over a half a billion dollars of our aid money and sandwiched i t away in Swiss banks. We were talking about campaign contributions, I almost, as I get
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for Congress. Walter Jenkins resigned and 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
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • LBJ’s election as whip; Senator Ernest McFarland; Senator Richard Russell; Preparedness Committee; Senator Estes Kefauver; Douglas MacArthur’s speech to Congress; natural gas bill; Tidelands bill; Walter Jenkins; LBJ’s love for the ranch and cattle
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • over, say, a ten-hour period. He'd turn over in his grave if he knew I told you he drank a fifth a day, but he did. G: Well, you learned of the heart attack and you went back. B: I came back to Washington, reported in to--called Walter Jenkins
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and here I was, a kid that weighed about 140 pounds, so there was quite a contrast in physical size. I recall John Connally was his administrative assistant; Walter Jenkins was with him, Mary Rather; I was working with him. He had heard that I knew more
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • have to say that admission of Alaska and Hawaii as states is, by far, the biggest thing that he did for this country. G: You mentioned, before we started the tape, about attaching this to an aid bill. B: Can you tell us your thinking here, your