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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • brilliance is related to his ability to count votes, and I've read several places that next to Lyndon Johnson, you could count votes better than anyone in the Senate. Can you educate us on the process? B: How would you do this? One, he had a basic
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Investigating Subcommittee. B: This was one that LBJ chaired at that time. I am not going to be a great amount of help to you, because once you lead me from the Senate floor and go to the committees, all I know is what you read in the newspapers and so
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to go back and read his speeches about what would happen, and everything they predicted has happened. The problem of most liberals in America is that they don't pay any attention to history. They never LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • knowledge and Stevenson's knowledge and you sort of bred them together, if maybe those two great minds might get us out of this abyss that we're in now. Because I recently read in the Wall Street Journal where that if you continue to spend--I'm talking
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • always trying to gerrymander Mr. Rayburn's district, to put him in a district where they could defeat him, which was dumb. look at the big picture. tive [press]. But they don't They believe what they read in the conserva- Your papers were totally
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the Foreign Relations Committee if they have someone. It's very seldom you ever read about luncheons in the secretary of the Senate's office. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories