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	JAMES BAKER - OCTOBER 1997
		JAMES BAKER: Yes there was a deliberate pause when President Bush succeeded President Reagan in all Foreign Policy matters not just matters involving the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union, I think it's quite appropriate for a new president coming in to put his stamp if you will on foreign policies.
		JAMES BAKER: Well the Soviet Union was still in the position of being able to destroy the United States, the only country in the world that had the United States targeted with strategic nuclear weapons and it was quite important to make sure that that relationship, that we got that relationship right.
		JAMES BAKER: Well we were re-examining policy with respect to all foreign policy issues this was not just a re-examination of the relationship between the United States and Soviet Union and policy towards the Soviet Union.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode-23/baker1.html (961 words)

	James Baker
		Baker's law firm, Baker Botts, was founded by Baker's grandfather, James A. Baker, and has offices in Houston, Washington DC, and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
		Baker Botts is the legal council defending the Saudi Arabian government in a lawsuit filed by families of those killed and injured in the 9/11 attacks.
		In 1982, Baker's son sold a quarter of an ounce of marijuana to an undercover cop.
	www.nndb.com /people/331/000023262 (675 words)

	James Baker (1794/1800) of Ashe Co, NC
		James Baker would probably have been home with his parents for the 1800 census and listed in the "under 10" age group (born ca 1790/1800).
		James Baker (1775/80) had an apparent son that age, as did Zachariah Baker (1775/80) and Morris Baker (bef 1755) as did an unidentified "J. Baker" who might be John Baker (1783).
		James Baker was still in Ashe Co, NC for the 1830 census.
	www.martygrant.com /gen/baker/baker-james-1794-ashe.htm (771 words)

	James Addison Baker III - dKosopedia
		James Addison Baker III served as Secretary of State (and Chief of Staff) under George Herbert Walker Bush and was Chief of Staff and Secretary of the Treasury under Ronald Reagan.
		Baker served as chief legal advisor for George W. Bush during the 2000 election campaign and oversaw the Florida recount.
		Baker is not related to James A. Baker, an official in the Justice Dept., who runs the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/James_Baker (665 words)

	History of Dorchester, MA
		Baker and Hannon were soon hard-pressed to keep up with sweet-toothed neighbors' demands for the duo's "hard cakes." Sold under Baker's name and advertised in Dorchester, Boston, and beyond in handbills, the chocolate was intended to be scraped by customers and boiled in water to make heavily sweetened cocoa.
		Baker was soon enmeshed in legal wrangles with Hannon's "widow," who seemed intent on running her husband's mill with his capable apprentice, Nathaniel Blake, as her workhorse.
		James Baker, the Harvard doctor and businessman who had launched America's first permanent and profitable chocolate factory, stepped down after nearly four decades as "the king of cocoa." He chose his son Edmund as the successor to the family business.
	www.dotnews.com /bakerchoc.html (1844 words)

	James Baker (1775/80) of Ashe Co, NC
		James Baker Sr (who was in Wilkes in 1790 but moved to Jefferson Co, TN afterwards) has a proven son named James, but I don't know if it is this one.
		James Baker would probably have been home with his parents for the 1790 census and listed in the "under 16" age group (born ca 1774/90).
		On 8 July 1798, James Baker, Anny Baker and Zachariah Baker witnessed a deed from William Savage to Henry Hardin for land on Cranberry Creek.
	www.martygrant.com /gen/baker/baker-james-ashe.htm (994 words)

	James Baker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1993, Baker became the founding chair of the James A. Baker III Institute of Public Policy at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
		Baker served as chief legal adviser for George W. Bush during the 2000 election campaign and oversaw the Florida recount.
		On June 15, 2002, Graeme Baker, the 7-year-old granddaughter of Baker, daughter of Nancy and James Baker IV, was the victim of suction entrapment [6].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Baker (1218 words)

	Mayor James M. Baker: Biography
		James M. Baker took the Oath of Office as Wilmington’s 54th Mayor originally on Tuesday, January 2, 2001, during a Special Meeting of the Wilmington City Council.
		Baker's belief in the value of history and culture, he has played a key role in a number of projects to preserve and promote the City's heritage.
		Baker’s efforts, the City/County Government building was named in honor of Delaware's nationally renowned civil rights attorney, the late Louis L. Redding, with an inspiring statue of Mr.
	www.ci.wilmington.de.us /biography.htm (488 words)

	James Baker - By David Plotz - Slate Magazine
		Baker is honorary chairman of Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.
		James Baker will be remembered, in my opinion, not for his earlier accomplishments, but forever for the partisan invective he injected into the 2000 election.
		Baker began the GOP drumbeat that hand recounts are of neccessity: partisan, subjective, "open to mischief", and (in simultaneous translation): fraudulent, paying the intelligence of the American people no great compliment.
	www.slate.com /id/93754 (1672 words)

	KRT Wire \| 11/17/2006 \| James Baker may face his toughest challenge in Iraq
		WASHINGTON - When James Baker became President George H.W. Bush's secretary of state in 1989, one of the first things he did was cut a bipartisan deal to end years of poisonous wrangling over U.S. policy in Central America - an issue as divisive then as Iraq is today.
		Baker, now 76, is proceeding much as he did when he negotiated over Nicaragua and El Salvador in the `80s, according to individuals close to him and the panel, known as the Iraq Study Group.
		Baker, a Republican and one-time political campaign manager who was chief of staff and treasury secretary under President Ronald Reagan, has long been identified with the pragmatic "realist" foreign policy of the first President Bush.
	www.mercurynews.com /mld/mercurynews/news/politics/16040033.htm (1015 words)

	frontline: the gulf war: oral history: james baker
		Baker: That was something that the President had in mind for some time during the weeks leading up to our being able to obtain the necessary support for the use of force resolution.
		Baker: Well that's really not correct, this was certainly not a plot on my part to avoid the war but I'd strongly supported the President's inclination to do this in terms of its impact on the judgement of history and I think it was the right thing to do as it turned out.
		Baker: During the course of the meeting, I made an effort to to point out to him that as President Bush's letter to President Saddam Hussein pointed out, we were deadly serious about this, that there was no given in opposition.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/baker/1.html (1739 words)

	U.S. Treasury - Biography of Secretary James A. Baker, III
		Baker was appointed by President Ford to be Under Secretary of Commerce.
		Baker was the recipient of the Jefferson Award for distinguished public service from the American Institute for Public Service, an award for Distinguished Public Service from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and the Woodrow Wilson Award for distinguished achievement in the nation's service from Princeton University.
		Secretary Baker was selected in 1986 as a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Texas.
	www.ustreas.gov /education/history/secretaries/jabakeriii.html (315 words)

	James H. Baker
		James H. Baker was Union Provost Marshal of St. Louis in 1863, later of the Department of Missouri.
		James Heaton Baker, son of Rev. Henry Baker, a Methodist preacher, and Hannah (Heaton) Baker, was born in Monroe, Ohio, May 6, 1829.
		General Baker was always much interested in the early history of Minnesota, and was never more at home than at the meetings of the old settlers of his county and state.
	www.civilwarstlouis.com /History/jameshbaker.htm (1362 words)

	Connecting the Dots: James A. Baker
		The judge who decided not to freeze the assests of Enron executives in January later recused herself from the case because she was a former employee of Baker and Botts, because of her ties to George Bush and the fact that she had been an Enron stockholder.
		Baker and Botts was Enron's counsel when they merged with Enron Power and Pipeline in 1997.
		Baker and Botts is currently defending the CEO of Rite-Aid, indicted for conspiracy and fraud.
	www.hereinreality.com /baker.html (401 words)

	James R. Baker Jr.-Medicine At Michigan Fall 2001
		Baker joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1989 as an associate professor in the Department of Internal Medicine's Division of Allergy.
		Baker was appointed chief of the Division of Allergy in 1993 and became professor of medicine in 1996.
		Baker also serves as director of the Center for Biologic Nanotechnology and, this year, was named co-director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering at the Medical School.
	www.medicineatmichigan.org /magazine/2001/fall/limelight/baker.asp (357 words)

	Baker Institute - Secretary Baker - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Baker served as the 67th secretary of the treasury from 1985 to 1988 under President Ronald Reagan.
		Baker is presently a senior partner in the law firm of Baker Botts.
		Baker was born in Houston, Texas, in 1930.
	bakerinstitute.org /Persons/H-Chair.htm (443 words)

	Company Bio - James Baker
		In the early 1760s James Baker ran a small general store from his home on the corner of Washington and Norfolk streets in Dorchester.
		On May 16, 1771, Baker prepared to go into the chocolate business on his own and bought what is believed to be his first order of cocoa beans.
		James finally retired from chocolate making in 1804, at the age of sixty-five, leaving the business in Edmund’s hands.
	www.bostonhistory.org /bakerschocolate/bioco_jbaker.htm (503 words)

	James Baker Press Release
		James A. Baker III, former U.S. Secretary of State, will present a public talk entitled, "A Conversation with James Baker," on Thursday, April 13 at 6:30 p.m.
		Baker served as Secretary of the Treasury from 1985 to 1988 under President Ronald Reagan and was Chairman of the President's Economic Policy Council.
		Baker is Honorary Chairman of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.
	www.wws.princeton.edu /events/pressreleases/20060413baker.html (330 words)

	Baker Botts LLP \| James A. Baker III
		James A. Baker III has served in senior government positions under three United States presidents.
		Baker traveled to 90 countries as the United States confronted the unprecedented challenges and opportunities of the post-Cold War era.
		He is honorary chairman of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University and serves on the board of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
	www.bakerbotts.com /lawyers/detail.aspx?id=a1789334-3f27-48d5-b844-211455e4beff (310 words)

	James Baker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Baker is a native of Missouri and was born in Monroe County, August 31, 1844, the son of William and Ruth (Standiford) Baker, natives of Kentucky and Missouri, respectively.
		Baker was married to Miss Margaret A. Hay, born in 1854, in Osage County, Missouri, the daughter of Benjamin and Jane Hay, who removed to Iowa in 1854 and resided in that territory until 1858, when they returned to Missouri, but later went again to Iowa in 1866.
		James Baker established a flsmith shop and wagon shop in Leesville in 1865, which has become one of the old landmarks in eastern Henry County.
	www.carolyar.com /bioBaker.htm (480 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Saving President Bush: Send in James Baker
		Baker is now a senior partner in the law firm of Baker Botts, which is deeply involved in the fight for the oil and gas of the Caspian Sea and is senior counselor to the powerful investment firm the Carlyle Group.
		On the morning of September 11th, 2001, Baker was reportedly at a Carlyle investor conference with members of the bin Laden family in the Ritz Carlton in Washington D.C. And his law firm Baker Botts is defending the Saudi government in a lawsuit filed by the families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks.
		James Wolfenson, who is president of the World Bank, has not called for the restructuring of Iraqi debt and that's by the way the job of the World Bank, which is officially called the bank for reconstruction and development, post-war reconstruction bank.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=03/12/08/150250 (3568 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > James M. Baker, Secretary of the Senate, 1913-1919
		In a yet-to-be duplicated example of on-the-job advancement, Assistant Librarian James M. Baker convinced the majority party's caucus that he belonged on the top rung, thereby becoming the eleventh person to serve as secretary.
		James Marion Baker was born on August 18, 1861, in Lowndesville, South Carolina.
		Immediately after Baker's March 1913 election, a Democratic caucus committee reviewed the forty-nine staff positions within the secretary's office to ensure that patronage jobs were evenly divided among Democratic senators and that the Republicans in the minority had no greater patronage advantage than did the Democrats during their minority years.
	senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/generic/SOS_James_Baker.htm (1082 words)

	James Baker III Appointed Envoy to Iraq
		Baker later headed the Republican team during the Florida recount litigation after the disputed election of 2000.
		Baker's name surfaced in July in connection with the Iraq reconstruction effort when administration officials said he was being considered for a key post to work alongside L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq.
		Baker also serves as a senior counselor to The Carlyle Group, a merchant banking firm in Washington, and is honorary chairman of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Houston's Rice University.
	www.yuricareport.com /Iraq/JamesBaker'sRoleInIraq.html (1068 words)

	AlterNet: War on Iraq: James Baker's Double Life
		Chris Ullman, vice president and spokesperson for Carlyle, said that "neither the Carlyle Group nor James Baker wrote, edited or authorized this proposal to the Kuwait government." But he acknowledged that Carlyle knew a proposal was being made to the government of Kuwait and that Carlyle stood to land a $1 billion investment.
		Baker occupies a complicated place in the consortium's January proposal – he is both problem and solution, stick and carrot.
		Baker's colleagues in the consortium chose that very same day to hand-deliver their proposal to Foreign Minister Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah – the same man Baker was meeting.
	www.alternet.org /waroniraq/20160 (4836 words)

	James Baker Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		James Addison Baker III (born April 28, 1930), American politician and diplomat, was Secretary of State in the administration of Republican President George H. Bush.
		Baker became employed with the law firm Andrews & Kurth, where he remained until 1975.
		Baker also served on the Reagan administration's Economic Policy Council, where he was instrumental in achieving the passage of the administration's tax and budget reform legislation package in 1981.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Baker_James.html (457 words)

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