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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • long enough to hear this interview, and his name was John Burns, who presently is governor of Hawaii, but his term will expire January 3, 1975. He has terminal cancer. Speaker Rayburn was a fantastic person when i t came to determining the character
  • Tidelands legislation; admission of Alaska and Hawaii as states; East-West Center in Honolulu; space program; Senate committee assignments; Estes Kefauver, John Kennedy, and the Foreign Relations Committee; 1960 Democratic National Convention; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • governor of South Carolina, Earl Morris, Jr., who was a candidate for governor and who was defeated. I moved to Pickens. My father was the village carrier, then became postmaster during Eisenhower's administration, thanks to Senator LBJ Presidential
  • Baker’s career in the Senate; LBJ as Senator; Taft-Hartley Act; Senator Russell; Senator Taft; Joe McCarthy; the Smith Amendment; Senator John Bricker; Senator Walter George; the Cloakroom