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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • enterprise system is the only way for it to work. At the time, I didn't agree with Johnson's position; I agreed with Truman that we should keep controls. But I really believe that the quicker we are able to really make free enterprise work, and do away
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . There is a possibility that Steve Mitchell was either Adlai Stevenson's law partner or they were closely associated, but I think there was a better rapport between Johnson and Rayburn and Mitchell than there was with Stevenson, because they were always skeptical what
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lucas had a tough race because Dirksen had tremendous popular support, newspaper support, and Illinois was a state that could go either way, but Senator Myers' defeat was a big shock. Senator [Richard] Russell at this particular time had more votes
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on Johnson's part. This I believe I think if we knew the other side of Stevenson, had we had the association and so forth to sit down and talk like you and I are, for weeks at a time, to know their families and the way things are going, which they didn't do
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [was] that the newspapers constantly say [that] Shivers is going to run against Johnson. Shivers, as I recall, did not vote for Stevenson, because of Stevenson's position on tidelands in 1952. But any time Shivers would come to Washington and Johnson knew about it, he