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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , to go down to the Social Security department to find out why their check was late, or to the Veterans' Administration. So the only way that you can be an effective legislator is that you have got to have a good staff, without any doubt. When you go
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that the Democrats were a bunch of wild spenders and that here he was, a man that knew the military and there was plenty of waste there. President Eisenhower had recommended sort of massive reductions in the Defense Department expenditures. In addition
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : It had been the policy of the Eisenhower Administration and their Interior Department to try to get the government out of the dam-building business. The Eisenhower Administration used all the political muscle they had to keep this Echo Park Dam from
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a dentist. He had a son that had been caught in a homosexual affair out in Chicago LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • conservative than I am, but between the two of us we can sort of keep a balance in foreign affairs. If I could be LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • politicians and sex drive. I don't know, you look at Franklin Roosevelt, they talk about here's a man with polio who was having an affair with Lucy Winchester [Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd]. Sparkman was a ladies' man. Oh, yes. John I don't know whether you know
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . All I did really though--it had been reported by the, I think it was, Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, and it carried overwhelmingly. I believe Senator Holland from Florida was one of the main proponents, because Florida has such a vast