Remembering James Baker III

by Dan Eakin In the late 1970s I was in the office of Joe Murray, editor of the Lufkin Daily News who had gone out on an errand, when a man whom I later came to know as James Baker III walked into the office and introduced himself to me. I think he thought I was the editor and I don’t think I told him different, at least not right away. I was just a lowly reporter. He told me that he was…