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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Democrats in the history of the Senate. We had the biggest That's when Johnson had a tremendous majority, and those people that were elected, because of the leadership that he had shown, the responsibility and so forth--but Walter Reuther controlled
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • 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 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a candidate. Everybody knew nothing was going to happen, but the end product was that Governor Stevenson made a deal with Walter Reuther, who was the president of United Automobile Workers, who had about three hundred delegates to the convention from all
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the establishment. was entitled to it. He The only thing that really rankled a lot of professional Democrats--I was the executive director of the Democratic Platform Committee that year--was the fact that Walter Reuther controlled the convention. And he made
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Walter Reuther was the most influential man in the labor movement because of his money, so he controlled more delegates to the 1956 convention than Truman did. You know, Truman in 1956 was an ex-president and he had not been rehabilitated; he still