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Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, Tommy Corcoran, Abe Fortas, and many of us would gather over there on the big back porch he had there. F: It wasn't any sort of command performance quality about this. You LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Texas broadcasting business; appointment of Abe Fortas to Supreme Court.

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Goldschmidt - -14 It was just one of those good, solid confrontations that goes on. There was never any disagreement among [them]. I would add Abe Fortas to the group, because first he was director
First meeting with LBJ; NYA; Aubrey Williams; Congressional support for LBJ; Dillard Lasseter; John Carson; political apprenticeship of LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; Sam Rayburn; Abe Fortas; Helen Douglas; father figure to LBJ; Texas sort of expansiveness

angle to get into the White House. was between Pan Am and American. The big fight I remember There was something about Braniff I know, but I can't remember what it was. Was Abe [Fortas] counsel? No, he was not, he was in the government then. I

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Johnson operation. I can remember, I think, on a Sunday, going over to Thurman Arnold, Abe Fortas' office, and there must have been thirty-five lawyers there, all friends of Johnson's. get in this thing. I'm sure he called us all up and said Finally

hysterical Corcoran phone calls "Come right away" to the office of what was then--I don't remember whether it was Arnold, Fortas and Porter or whether it was Arnold and Fortas at that time. lawyers over there. I went to this office and there were a lot

Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

: Late thirties. M: Do you remember anything about when you first met him? What he was like, what he looked like, what he acted like? H: I first met him with Abe Fortas, Bill Douglas, Tommy the Cork, arid other friends of LBJls. He was a very

Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and then it came up during recess of the Supreme Court. In a very, very rare occasion for a newspaperman, a justice invited about three of us reporters for Texas papers back into his private chambers for a hearing. was Justice Hugo Black. It Abe Fortas, who

Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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