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H:
That's quite right.
F:
You didn't assign additional people to McCarthy or Robert Kennedy?
H:
No, I should say not.
F:
At the convention in '68, did you see evidence of the alleged heavy-hand
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- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
- ; reputation as a hawk in Vietnam erroneous; Robert Kintner; rivalry between RFK and LBJ; Presidential press secretaries; LBJ seeking professional advice on TV style; conscious of Texas twang; Barry Goldwater; George Wallace; 3/31 speech; evaluation of LBJ
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INTERVIEWEE:
ROBERT BASKIN
INTERVIEWER:
JOE B. FRANTZ
PLACE:
Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas
Tape 1 of 1
F:
Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as
well go on there.
Lyndon Johnson?
B:
Briefly, when
- See all online interviews with Robert E. Baskin
- as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
- Baskin, Robert E.
- Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
- Robert E. Baskin
- top secret things, just kind of a right-hand man type
to the General.
At the end of 1960--1 didn't know anything about this till I
read it in Newsweek--somebody touted Clifton as the military aide to
the newly elected President Kennedy.
He didn't deny
- as General Clifton’s photographer for industrial and VIP special events; being a White House photographer during the Kennedy administration; August 1961 trip to Berlin Wall with Vice-President Johnson and Y.R. Okamoto’s coverage of the trip; European trip
- we're talking about now.
F:
Right.
P:
The farm-to-market roads, they were beginning to talk about them but
not do anything about them.
You see, the Highway Commission had just
been formed with Robert Hubbard as chairman, and they were not too
active
- it was not that favorable that he was considered
in 1960, for instance.
candidate for President.
He was not considered by our people as the ideal
You know, he was a candidate in 1960, and of course
lost out in the convention to John F. Kennedy.
When he was selected
- First meeting LBJ; Labor’s opinion of LBJ in the Senate and support of Kennedy-Johnson ticket; LBJ as VP active on the Space Council; Landrum-Griffin Bill; talk with LBJ after the JFK assassination; LBJ’s legislative record; influence of organized
- that time in which you're beginning to
think about, 1960, and it shows John F. Kennedy with the controversial
issue of labor, and Stuart Symington with the controversial issue of certain
armed forces propositions, and Lyndon Johnson
- which
would prove to our ultimate disadvantage.
Now my position was public,
was well known.
When President Kennedy sent an emissary to me to ask that I remain
on as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, I could immediately see
that having me
- President Kennedy was made president
and then continued on when Johnson succeeded to that
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