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INTERVIEWEE:
ROBERT BASKIN
INTERVIEWER:
JOE B. FRANTZ
PLACE:
Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas
Tape 1 of 1
F:
Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as
well go on there.
Lyndon Johnson?
B:
Briefly, when
- , one of those grey silk tuxedos with black lapels.
F:
What was the occasion, a party?
H:
It was a radio/television correspondents dinner.
something about,
I~very
Senator Anderson said
damned time you bring one of these rich Texans up
here
- the Truman Administration.
At
that time, I don't recall exactly the position that senator Johnson-F:
I'll refresh you on that.
November '48.
He was a new Senator; he had been elected in
Then, after '50 when Ernest McFarland was defeated, he
was named
- frequently in those Congressional days?
W:
Yes.
I saw him--each time I carne to Washington I visited with him.
And
each time he carne to New York he stayed with us at my horne.
F:
Did he come frequently?
W:
Well, no, not very frequently.
F:
Did you
- several times.
And my
real contacts on what you might call almost a weekly basis really began when
he was Majority Leader.
Mu:
You were working with him then on legislation of various kinds?
Me:
Yes.
I had occasion to talk to him many times on our
- at that time was in the
Treasury Department.
So he invited me to join the Budget Bureau
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