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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at Christmas time, with all their Christmas gifts, with planes to make connections from Dallas. Had they ever known that Johnson had done this, they would have killed him. And had the press ever found out what he did--I mean, as I've told you on several
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , I never will forget what Lyndon Johnson yelled out, he said, "What has Richard Nixon ever done for Culpeper, Virginia!" The press picked it up. He liked Lyndon Johnson, and we lost Virginia. Harry Byrd was for Nixon. But I had been in business
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this with the regular Senate dining room? B: Oh, in the regular Senate dining room you've got all the press to bother you. Another thing, see, if you used the secretary of the Senate's office, you don't have to be explaining to the press why you're there. If you
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • colleagues, both in the Senate and in the House, and I think this was very, very helpful to him politically. Talking about politics, you see the press is very critical of Governor Rockefeller right now, who's being considered to be the vice president. I have
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • supersensitive about press releases about how the Democratic leadership should be fighting Eisenhower, and what I called the Joe Rauh-ADA-superliberal wing of the Democratic Party had entirely too much control of the personnel at the Democratic National Committee
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of these unani­ mous reports, with some very solid recommendations, [like] get a dollar's value for a dollar spent, and calling attention to our basic weakness in the military field . The national press and the world press paid attention to him because he
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)