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- , 1984
INTERVIEWEE:
ROBERT G. BAKER
INTERVIEWER:
Michael L. Gillette
PLACE:
Mr. Baker's office, Olney, Maryland
Tape 1 of 1
G:
Let's start with 1952.
We talked a little bit about it last time, but
did not cover a lot of the areas. Let's
- See all online interviews with Robert G. (Bobby) Baker
- Baker, Robert G.
- Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
- Robert G. (Bobby) Baker
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Representative Bow
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The P resident
Opened meeting by saying
- to get it through was to come in with a tight budget.
Now
at what stage you've got to come in under a hundred was explicitly
formulated by Harry Byrd and some of the other people, I don't know.
But it soon became clear to the President that he couldn't
- of it that was substantive was that we
were afraid, obviously, that if you let the Harry Byrds of the Congress
dictate the terms, the danger was that badly needed expenditures would
go down the drain.
He needed not only the expenditures for their
own sake
- Troika; Quadriad; Council of Economic Advisers; administration differences; details of tax cut; trade-offs with Congress on budget cuts; Wilbur Mills; Harry Byrd; origin of tax cut; Samuelson Task Force; “new economics;” tax increases; Vietnam’s