The nation hardly noticed when Bobby Baker, the poster boy for political corruption, got out of prison on Jun. 2, 1972.
The Washington insider the press nicknamed “Lyndon’s boy” did not hail from Texas, as many misinformed Americans presumed, but from South Carolina. Sent to Capitol Hill as a senate page at the impressionable age of 14, the ambitious errand boy cut his teeth on corruption.
When Lynd…
