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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
- See all online interviews with Robert E. Baskin
- 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
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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
- about the one where Kefauver and
Kennedy-G:
Oh, I was there.
F:
And Adlai was, for a second time.
G:
I'm sorry, I will go back.
You see, these years!
All right.
Yes, I
was at the convention.
F:
As a delegate?
G:
No, Walter asked me to come
- of the Kennedy-Nixon campaign, and.
75 per cent of the students in my class were from Ivy League schools
and they, in fact, considered me quite provincial.
I had to overcome that.
So I felt that
So I became very interested--through
forcing myself and through
- Biographical information; what his jobs were for LBJ; how the staff decided which invitations LBJ would accept; Senator Dodd; advance work; Bobby Baker; working with the Kennedy staff; the JFK assassination and Sinclair’s work in the following days
- and promoting Mr. Johnson wherever they could.
Sort of
advance men, as we called them.
F:
When did you first learn that he had been offered and had accepted the
vice presidential nomination by Mr. Kennedy?
P:
It was, of course, speculated in the newspapers
