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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
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh
May 12, 1969
This is an interview with Chet Huntley in his office in New York on May
12, 1969.
The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz.
First of all Mr. Huntley, you have one thing in common with Lyndon
B. Johnson, that is you
- Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
- U.S. Attorney.
Through his recommendation I was
After that I was recommended for
reappointment in the Republican administration by the judges of the
United States District Court in Chicago.
F:
What prompted your move to New York?
W:
I was asked
- happened to
come to Washington.
I'd been associated with a nonprofit manage-
ment consulting firm in Chicago for about a year and planned to go
back.
In the meantime, "the head of the company became assistant
director of the Budget Bureau, which
- there was nothing there for me to do. The boss said, "I
can send you to Panama, and you can catch up with them or better
still, why don't you stay here and start a nucleus of a new outfit
which we hope to have here, because we have this big lab."
to stay.
So I
- 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
- every accommodation that you could get
at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.
You could have a radio, you
could have lights, you could have refrigeration, and you could have
everything that they had in the Waldorf-Astoria with a good highway,
a good
- , although his
early record in the Congress would indicate that as a young congressman he
was quite liberal and supported all of President Roosevelt's programs, all
the New Deal legislation.
But by the time he came back to the Senate, I would
say that he