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Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to formally head up this group. B: As I recall it, and as some of these memorandam indicate--and there are not enough that really tie it down--[that group was formed] sometime in the early fall of 1963 as a result of a [James] Patton visit to Jack Kennedy
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to support the Vice President. The Under Secretary announced that he was supporting Senator Robert Kennedy. And that was the third announcement that came along. And the day that announcement came along, along about 6:25 or something, I was sitting here
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • after another. It just seemed like something to do. Most of us had been doing it with the Kennedy preliminary thing and we just stayed with it. G: Did you have a shortage of operating funds as a task force? B: We didn't have any operating funds
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • better than I would. Prior to the Johnson Administration-- in fact, we had set up our cadre but we hadn't actuallY taken over yet in the Kennedy Administration--I explained to Secretary [Orville] LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org