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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a deal with Adlai Stevenson, who people wouldn't think would make a deal but he did, and he made a deal to deliver Michigan, New Jersey, California, and New York to Stevenson if Stevenson would throw the convention open, and that's the way Kefauver got
  • acceptance of the vice-presidential nomination; whistle stop train trip through the South; Bart Lytton; helicopter incident in Rocky Bottom, South Carolina; New Orleans
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] became governor of the Federal Reserve Board in New York. But he just had bright people. But of all the United S t a t e s senators that I have known, I thought John Sparkman had less ego than most senators. His selection by Adlai Stevenson to be his
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Eisenhower. Now, Truman, without consulting anybody--I guess talked to his labor friends--endorsed Averell Harriman, who was the governor of New York. So Senator Johnson and some of them had, I believe, been supporting Senator Russell. Senator Kerr
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , in trying to placate the [John] Brickers and the Bridges and the Knowlands, for strictly partisan purposes leaked to the New York Times the full Yalta Conference Papers, which when read in that context, just cold print, it certainly gave the appearance
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • different than New York But they had been collecting their dues on a national basis, so it meant big, big bucks to them. G: I notice he got, as you say, all forty-eight of the Democrats to vote together. B: It helped him. No, no. Did he make
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • President, had asked to run for the Senate. Burnett Maybank was in many, many ways ideologically similar to Lyndon Johnson. He was basically a New Deal Democrat and a man of the people. He was a Charlestonian, and he had great difficulty speaking
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , to give the South a chance to live with the new decision of the Supreme Court, I think Senator Russell would have been drafted for the presidency and would have been president. But I think that was the biggest political blunder in my lifetime, because
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)