Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case, Defense Attorney Edward Bennett Williams called Baker as his first witness. Displaying little of the bravado of his less troubled days, Bobby calmly told the jury of sundry influence-peddling deals. But his own role, he maintained, had been little more than that of an errand boy for Kerr...
...cash for his $1,200,000 Maryland shore Carousel Motel, Baker testified, he took his woes to Johnson, whom he described as "the best friend I had around the Capitol." Baker said: "The then Vice Presi dent picked up the phone and called his friend and my friend-Senator Kerr. He then advised me to go immediately to Senator Kerr's office, which...
According to Baker, Kerr at once promised personally to lend him $50,000, advanced him $10,000 of it forthwith and arranged an additional $250,000 line of credit from an Oklahoma City bank...
...happened-and as Baker recounted in court-Kerr was deeply involved at the time in political infighting over the tax reform bill of 1962, which sought to end the special tax treatment enjoyed by savings and loan associations. At the suggestion of an industry lobbyist, Baker arranged a meeting in September 1962 between Kerr and Kenneth Childs, a Los Angeles S & L executive. Afterward, Baker went on, Childs informed him that "as a result of the conference with Senator Kerr," he was going back to California and get together a "substantial contribution to Senator Kerr, to be used...
Baker testified that on three occasions, in October and November, he had been handed envelopes containing money-presumably the disputed $99,600 -by executives of West Coast S & L companies. Each time, Baker insisted, he turned over the envelopes to Kerr. On one such occasion, Baker received two envelopes from Stuart Davis, board chairman of Los Angeles' Great Western Financial Corp. (who had previously testified that they contained $50,100 in campaign funds). When he gave the envelopes to Kerr, Baker continued, the Senator loaned him $25,000 of the money, with the comment that he would "replenish...