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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to that he had recommended massive cuts in agricultural aid. away with the low-cost REA loans. He wanted to do Now, boy, when you start talking about REA loans, if you wanted to raise Lyndon Johnson's hackles and Sam Rayburn's--because the REA
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Sam Rayburn controlled the Democratic House and Senate, and Eisenhower LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , because they had to protect their flank back in Texas. The 27.5 per cent depletion, Rayburn and Johnson, by their selection of people to be on the committees, nobody ever touched depletion as long as Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn were in the Congress. I
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Persons as his liaison with the Hill. So you take a general and put him in that job, he doesn't know the sticks and the carrots of his office, where Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn had been on the Hill for twenty or more years each. They knew what
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The reason was depletion. While Johnson had never been an out- front leader of the oil and gas people, he also knew of their financial resources and their power to destroy. As long as Rayburn and Johnson were in Washington they never touched depletion
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • long enough to hear this interview, and his name was John Burns, who presently is governor of Hawaii, but his term will expire January 3, 1975. He has terminal cancer. Speaker Rayburn was a fantastic person when i t came to determining the character
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , was the epitome of everything that America is not. And I think, you know, you bring up this question of Howard Smith. Mr. Rayburn had to get along with him. with Mr. Rayburn about him. I didn't agree I would have told him to go to hell and to LBJ