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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Baker -- II -- 6 unequalled. this program. Johnson saw this, and this is the reason that he went for We used to talk about it about six o'clock every morning. G: What about
  • acceptance of the vice-presidential nomination; whistle stop train trip through the South; Bart Lytton; helicopter incident in Rocky Bottom, South Carolina; New Orleans
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , to give the South a chance to live with the new decision of the Supreme Court, I think Senator Russell would have been drafted for the presidency and would have been president. But I think that was the biggest political blunder in my lifetime, because
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kefauver, who was a senator from Tennessee, had entered into the New Hampshire primary and had defeated Truman, who was then the sitting president, most people--I'm talking about most politicians--were of the opinion that Truman liked being president
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Here were people big in the oil And nevertheless, here was Clint Murchison writing to Johnson in 1952 that it may be that there is going to be a new party formed here and you should be a part of it, which Johnson didn't take. Johnson was sort
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • President, had asked to run for the Senate. Burnett Maybank was in many, many ways ideologically similar to Lyndon Johnson. He was basically a New Deal Democrat and a man of the people. He was a Charlestonian, and he had great difficulty speaking
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Howard] Edmondson of Oklahoma, who was soundly defeated by the [Robert] Kerr forces, and the Mayor of New Orleans, who was just--Mayor deLesseps Morrison's support really was religious. He was a French Catholic who liked John Kennedy. have any lines
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . [Oveta Culp] Hobby, I'm sure that Johnson would have been one of his strongest proponents. G: Politics makes strange bedfellows. There was an article by Elizabeth Donahue in The New Republic entitled "The Prosecution Rests," and the thrust