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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 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
  • 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 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Armory that he will not be a candidate for re-election. he will support. So everybody is seeking his attention as to who Senator [Richard] Russell wanted to be president very badly, but he also was one of the most astute historians in the history
  • Adlai Stevenson; 1952 presidential election; Dwight Eisenhower; Harry Truman; Gene McCarthy; John Sparkman; Amon Carter; Senator Richard Russell; Kentucky Derby; LBJ’s relationship with President Eisenhower; economics
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • being authorized and then appropriated for. But my recollection is that because of Johnson's friendship with Senator [Richard L.] Neuberger from Oregon and Wayne Morse, while Neuberger and Morse disliked each other intensely, Johnson was friendly
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
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