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  • Mob Story: The Vice President [Lyndon B. Johnson]

    07/12/2022 4:01:56 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 17 replies
    AmericanMafia.com ^ | July 2002 | John William Tuohy
    Bobby Baker of Pickens, South Carolina, started his career in Washington as a Senate Page in 1942... [A]t age 34, he was personnel secretary to the Majority leader and was a major power on Capitol Hill and was known... as the 101st Senator of the United States.Starting in the 1950s, Baker became Johnson's protege, or "Little Lyndon" as he was sarcastically called...By 1960, Bobby Baker was the man to see on Capitol Hill... He was also a millionaire, an odd circumstance for a man who was born into humble surroundings and never worked outside government...When the Bobby Baker scandal erupted,...