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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
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- as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
- Baskin, Robert E.
- Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
- Robert E. Baskin
- affairs at that particular tirn.e I was designated as the floor leader of the loyal Dern.ocrats - -the people who were supporting Lyndon Johnson and who were loyal to the party. By the way at that convention Robert W. Calvert, who is now Chief Justice
- . D; Yes, very happily, they did. I remember the next week Life magazine had a centerfold and they had pictures of everybody laughing. They had all the senators, Humphrey, Kennedy, Johnson, Symington, all of them---l sti 11 have that copy of Li
- : Actually you got the formal endorsement of the Texas AF of L in the campaign? M: That"s right. And there was one Sunday when Morris Roberts and I thought we were going to get Stevenson to come out on the Taft-Hartley thing. We thought we had him
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- with LBJ; doing LBJ’s makeup; LBJ giving to a poor family and the Catholic church in Stonewall; LBJ’s relationship with the Kennedys and Hubert Humphrey; LBJ’s interest in the media (TV, ticker tape, newspapers) and sensitivity to the media; diversity
- : In 1956 you had that horse race between young John Kennedy and Estes Kefauver for the vice presidency, and Johnson shook a lot of people by taking Texas for Kennedy instead of for Kefauver. Were you privy at all to his thinking or strategy in this, or do
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
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- . Kennedy, Mr . Nixon, and Mr . Albert all in one little huddle . They were the only � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
- : Of course, that was primarily a Kennedy campaign. OM: That's true. F: Mr. Johnson was subordinate in this instance, except you did have . . . Vr'1: We had the tea F: You had the tea Vfvl: Yes. F: Tell me a little bit about them. VM: ~'Jell
- Robert M . LaFollette came there to lecture he That was Robert M . LaFollette, said, "Lindley, I want you to meet him ." Jr ., whom I later served in the Congress with . He did the same with reference to permitting me to get close, as it were, to Vice
- with the Johnson-Rayburn group, but I have never been heavily involved with the party political machine in Texas. F: \fuen you come down to 1960, it is evi.dent that Johnson is probably going to run against Kennedy and whoever else, Stuart Symington and other
- with usually in the Senate? B : No, but on occasion it would happen. a very important point . My wife raises a point that is It's not unimportant that she was born in Fort Worth and lived in Dallas until she came up here with the Kennedy Administration
- the parents were in Texas at the time of President Kennedy's assassination. Lynda was in Austin at the University, but Luci was--I was out at the Elms with Luci. And that afternoon I went by the school to pick her up to take her home. That is one of my
- your wedding. II They were living· at the Kennedy-Warren. [A D. C. apartment house] So they asked us to make up a list of whom we wanted. Philip had been here a year and a half, and the list got so big that the wedding had to be moved from