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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not a traitor and I keep my commit- Unless you advise me to make the speech, I will just, when they call the roll, vote for Lyndon Johnson, which I told you I would do." At this time I had learned that there was no hope with Governor Lawrence
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Bob Kerr was Lyndon Johnson's biggest booster for this position. I think he wanted Lyndon Johnson to support him for the presidency, which he would have done, but Johnson was totally committed to Richard Russell in 1952, which was a safe position
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of arrogant with me about my friendship with Clint, Jr. and Bob Thompson [?]. He was always leery, I suppose ever since he got that letter, of big fat cats trying to tell him how to run his business. He was skeptical of them. G: The suggestion
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Alaska and Hawaii statehood? Can you recount how this bill was passed, the strategy? B: There was much more sentiment in the Congress for Alaskan statehood than for Hawaiian statehood. There was a man who was dying with cancer, and I hope he lives
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ' supporters, the real conservative right, wanted to get rid of Lyndon Johnson, and Allan Shivers was their great hope. But it shows you the genius of Johnson, and I don't know Shivers so I don't know his political genius, but the fact