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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and that with the divisions in the party, that Richard Nixon was absolutely a cinch to be elected and that unless he would consent to go on the ticket, then the ball game was over. That's how that happened. The next visitor in the room was former Governor of Texas, John
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . It didn't appreciably change until, I believe, Nixon's administration when they permitted the Shah of Iran to increase the price. We went, I believe, from three to six to ten and all the way up to almost forty dollars a barrel in the last twenty years
  • Steve Mitchell; the oil business; drought relief; President Eisenhower; foreign aid; Chiang Kai-Shek; Bricker Amendment; Senator Walter George; Allan Shivers; the 1954 Senate election; Dixon-Yates controversy; Taft-Hartley amendments; Pat McCarran
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was when Eisenhower was elected president in November of 1952. He took office January 20, 1953. named a fellow named Herbert Brownell to be attorney general. He So Richard Nixon and Brownell realized the only way that they could continue
  • ; Dixiecrat-Republican coalition; Senator Russell’s run for president; Pat McCarran; Donald Cook; Allan Shivers; Drew Pearson
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of them, you know, would just come right out and say, "Why don't you support me?" Now, Stevenson thought that he, for the first time, could win in 1960, because he thought he had a sufficient following and that Nixon would be by far much weaker than
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 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But he was helpless, because I knew that once a man's president, that if he wanted to, he couldn't do anything for you. You see precisely what's happened with President Ford pardoning ex-President Nixon; had Johnson done this, it would have completely