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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: Okay, the highway bill was another big controversy that year. Do you remember that? B: Yes, sir; yes, sir. I think that the administration under President Eisenhower had suggested the interstate highway program, but they really wanted
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • commitments. aid. It really was military aid but we called it foreign The Congress then wanted to spend money at home instead of overseas. Now, 90 per cent of the money that we spent for foreign aid was really spent here manufacturing our stuff
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , an agricultural expert, whatnot, and go back home. This would be the best money we could ever spend if we were going to win the battle for men's minds. Tragically, by the time we got through with the bureaucrats, it never worked out this way. tion. We wound up
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of my home town, which I moved to from Easley. I was born in Easley, which is the main road of the Southern Railroad. During the campaign in 1960 when Lyndon Johnson was the vice presidential nominee, we stopped the train in Easley for him to go up
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a better staff in the Senate while I was there than Johnson had, both in his senatorial office and on his committee staff . He was a perfectionist . of happy homes with his demands on your time . in his vocabulary . He broke up a lot Sunday
  • LBJ’s election as whip; Senator Ernest McFarland; Senator Richard Russell; Preparedness Committee; Senator Estes Kefauver; Douglas MacArthur’s speech to Congress; natural gas bill; Tidelands bill; Walter Jenkins; LBJ’s love for the ranch and cattle
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lyndon Johnson because of this. Paul Douglas became very bitter, but after the 1964 voting rights bill he said Lyndon Johnson was the greatest president since Lincoln. G: With regard to Johnson in this, why was he singled out as the target of Drew
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that he hired always, after they got out of politics, went on to be better. John Horne, if I recall when he first came there, was his administrative assistant. He became chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board-(Interruption) John Sparkman