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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 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Committee with him were an absolutely outstanding group of senators. It was because of their prestige and their power and their impression with the news media that we were able to start a space. program. Jack Kennedy never did understand what space
  • 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 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 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
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 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