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Telephone conversation # 11142, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 12/16/1966, 9:56AM (Item)
  • FORTAS ON HOLD 3:40
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 11142, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 12/16/1966, 9:56AM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 10553, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 8/4/1966, 8:25AM (Item)
  • CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS RECORDING; LBJ LISTENS TO TV NEWS AT TIMES DURING CONVERSATION; FORTAS IS DIFFICULT TO HEAR AT TIMES
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 10553, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 8/4/1966, 8:25AM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 11377, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 1/20/1967, 12:55PM (Item)
  • POOR SOUND QUALITY; FORTAS IS DIFFICULT TO HEAR; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 11377, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 1/20/1967, 12:55PM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 11333, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 1/11/1967, 3:45PM (Item)
  • RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN; RECORDING OF FORTAS' CALL IS INTERRUPTED BY CALL FROM UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE TO MARY SLATER
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 11333, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 1/11/1967, 3:45PM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 10822, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 9/22/1966, 8:30AM (Item)
  • CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS RECORDING; FORTAS IS DIFFICULT TO HEAR; RECORDING ENDS BEFORE CONVERSATION IS OVER
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 10822, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 9/22/1966, 8:30AM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 11189, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 12/22/1966, 3:41PM (Item)
  • FORTAS DISCUSSES MEETING WITH "CLARK" (CLIFFORD?) ABOUT RELEASE OF LBJ'S LETTER TO JACQUELINE KENNEDY; CONTROVERSY ABOUT RFK'S ROLE IN FBI WIRETAPS; PRESS LEAK OF 1962 ORDER; LBJ EMPHASIZES HIS OPPOSITION TO WIRETAPS EXCEPT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 11189, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 12/22/1966, 3:41PM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 10912, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 10/3/1966, 8:16AM (Item)
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 10912, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 10/3/1966, 8:16AM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 10913, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 10/3/1966, 8:16AM (Item)
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 10913, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 10/3/1966, 8:16AM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 132, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 11/29/1963, 1:15PM (Item)
  • "(TRANSCRIBED)"; OFFICE SECRETARY ASKS TELEPHONE OPERATOR TO PLACE CALL TO FORTAS; 1:30 ELAPSES BEFORE FORTAS IS CONNECTED; POOR SOUND QUALITY; LBJ SPEAKS TO "MAC" DURING CALL; DIARY INDICATES LBJ IS MEETING WITH MCGEORGE BUNDY; PREVIOUSLY OPENED 11
  • LBJ ASKS ABOUT FORTAS' PROGRESS ON PROPOSED COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE JFK ASSASSINATION; FORTAS SAYS NICHOLAS KATZENBACH AND SOLICITOR GENERAL WILL TALK TO EARL WARREN; POSSIBLE APPOINTEES; LBJ'S AUTHORITY TO APPOINT COMMISSION; HALE BOGGS' REMARKS
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 132, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 11/29/1963, 1:15PM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 8204, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 6/28/1965, 3:00PM (Item)
  • RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN; FORTAS IS ALMOST INAUDIBLE; LBJ PUTS FORTAS ON HOLD 1:30 IN MIDDLE OF CONVERSATION
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 8204, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 6/28/1965, 3:00PM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 11149, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 12/17/1966, 10:45AM (Item)
  • "WASHINGTON"; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN; POOR SOUND; FORTAS IS DIFFICULT TO HEAR; FORTAS IS MEETING WITH "BILL" (MOYERS?) AT TIME OF CALL AND SPEAKS WITH HIM AT TIMES; CONTINUES ON NEXT 2 RECORDINGS; PREVIOUSLY OPENED ON TAPE
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 11149, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 12/17/1966, 10:45AM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 11150, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 12/17/1966, 10:45AM (Item)
  • "WASHINGTON"; POOR SOUND QUALITY; FORTAS IS DIFFICULT TO HEAR; FORTAS IS APPARENTLY MEETING WITH "BILL" (MOYERS?) AT TIME OF CALL AND TALKS WITH HIM DURING CALL; CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS RECORDING AND ON NEXT RECORDING; PREVIOUSLY OPENED IN PART
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 11150, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 12/17/1966, 10:45AM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 10654, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 8/29/1966, 9:30AM (Item)
  • LADY BIRD JOHNSON, MARIE FEHMER, GEORGE CHRISTIAN ARE MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CONFERENCE CALL; ABE FORTAS TALKS TO JUANITA ROBERTS WHO IS IN OFFICE WITH HIM BUT ROBERTS IS NOT AUDIBLE; CONVERSATION CONTINUES ON NEXT 3 RECORDINGS
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 10654, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 8/29/1966, 9:30AM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 10655, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 8/29/1966, 9:30AM (Item)
  • LADY BIRD JOHNSON, MARIE FEHMER, GEORGE CHRISTIAN ARE MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CONFERENCE CALL; ABE FORTAS TALKS TO DOROTHY TERRITO WHO IS IN OFFICE WITH HIM BUT TERRITO IS NOT AUDIBLE; CONVERSATION CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS RECORDING AND ON NEXT
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 10655, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 8/29/1966, 9:30AM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 10929, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 10/6/1966, 6:02PM (Item)
  • RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN; POOR SOUND QUALITY; FORTAS IS DIFFICULT TO HEAR, ALMOST INAUDIBLE; PREVIOUSLY OPENED ON K66.03, PN0 3
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 10929, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 10/6/1966, 6:02PM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 10656, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 8/29/1966, 9:30AM (Item)
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 10656, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 8/29/1966, 9:30AM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 10657, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 8/29/1966, 9:30AM (Item)
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 10657, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 8/29/1966, 9:30AM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 13135, sound recording, LBJ and JAMES EASTLAND, 6/23/1968, 9:09AM (Item)
  • JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT FOR ALEXANDER LAWRENCE; APPOINTMENT OF ABE FORTAS AS CHIEF JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT; FORTAS' RECENT SPEECH ON CIVIL DISSENT; LBJ READS LIST OF CANDIDATES TO SUCCEED FORTAS, SUGGESTS REAPPOINTING TOM CLARK AND DISMISSING RAMSEY
Telephone conversation # 13413, sound recording, LBJ and RAMSEY CLARK, 9/12/1968, 5:16PM (Item)
  • "ALL THE REST OF 2 BELTS-FORTAS MATTER, SEN. HEARINGS"; "ATTY. GEN. RAMSEY CLARK SEN. RUSSELL LONG" WRITTEN ON DICTABELT; "TRANSCRIBED YB" WRITTEN ON ENVELOPE CONTAINING DICTABELT; CONTINUES ON NEXT RECORDING
  • ABE FORTAS' CONFIRMATION HEARINGS; QUESTION OF LBJ INVOKING EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE; EVERETT DIRKSEN'S LAGGING SUPPORT FOR FORTAS; APPOINTMENT OF UNNAMED ACADEMIC TO DOJ ANTITRUST JOB; EDWIN WEISL, JR.; LBJ TEASES CLARK ABOUT WALKING TO WORK; CLARK'S
Telephone conversation # 13201, sound recording, LBJ and RAMSEY CLARK, 7/1/1968, 4:26PM (Item)
  • SHORTHAND NOTES PRECEDE AND FOLLOW "FORTAS & THORNBERRY" ON SLIP ACCOMPANYING DICTABELT; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN
  • FBI, LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE TO SITUATION IN MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI; LBJ SAYS HE WANTS DOJ STATEMENT THAT FEDERAL GOVT WILL INVESTIGATE ATTACKS ON JEWS, NEGROES; NEED TO GET SUPPORT FOR SUPREME COURT NOMINATIONS OF ABE FORTAS, HOMER THORNBERRY
Telephone conversation # 8514, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 8/6/1965, 6:10PM (Item)
  • KATZENBACH'S APPEARANCE ON "ISSUES AND ANSWERS," QUESTION ABOUT FEUD BETWEEN LBJ, RFK; ABE FORTAS' TESTIMONY AT SENATE CONFIRMATION HEARING; IMMIGRATION BILL; APPOINTMENTS TO SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES CONTROL BOARD, COMPTROLLER GENERAL, CRIME COMMISSION
Telephone conversation # 8355, sound recording, LBJ and ARTHUR GOLDBERG, 7/19/1965, 8:28PM (Item)
  • LBJ TELLS GOLDBERG OF REACTION HE RECEIVED TO GOLDBERG AS CANDIDATE FOR UN AMBASSADOR; POSSIBLE ARAB REACTION TO JEWISH APPOINTMENT; ABE FORTAS' LETTER DECLINING SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENT; GOLDBERG ASKS LBJ TO CALL DIRKSEN BEFORE ANNOUNCING
Telephone conversation # 9488, sound recording, LBJ and BILL MOYERS, 1/13/1966, 1:27AM (Item)
  • PRESS STORY THAT MOYERS MAY RESIGN AS WH PRESS SECRETARY; MOYERS', RICHARD GOODWIN'S WORK ON STATE OF THE UNION MESSAGE; ALLEGED WH DISSENSION; CONTRIBUTIONS OF ABE FORTAS, CLARK CLIFFORD TO SPEECH; MOYERS' ATTITUDE; MARVIN WATSON
Telephone conversation # 11209, sound recording, LBJ and BILL MOYERS, 12/26/1966, 11:46AM (Item)
  • MOYERS RELAYS ABE FORTAS' VIEWS ON WH PRESS STATEMENT ABOUT NEWSWEEK ARTICLE ON LBJ AND WILLIAM MANCHESTER'S BOOK ON JFK ASSASSINATION; LBJ EXPRESSES IRRITATION ABOUT PRESS LEAKS AND MANIPULATION OF SOURCES BY THE PRESS
Telephone conversation # 6385, sound recording, LBJ and J. EDGAR HOOVER, 11/17/1964, 1:37PM (Item)
  • FBI INVESTIGATION; RFK; JOSEPH ALSOP; CANDIDATES FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL: NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, ABE FORTAS, CLARK CLIFFORD, DON COOK; HOOVER RECOMMENDS IRVING KAUFMAN; JUSTICE DEPT ROLE IN JAMES HOFFA CASE; CLIFFORD'S ROLE IN 1964 VP SELECTION
Telephone conversation # 8526, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 8/9/1965, 3:31PM (Item)
  • LBJ, KATZENBACH DEBATE MERIT OF DELAY IN SENDING FEDERAL EXAMINERS TO MISSISSIPPI UNTIL AFTER VOTE THERE ON MISSISSIPPI CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS TO LIBERALIZE VOTING LAWS; NEGATIVE EFFECT OF FDR'S ENDORSEMENT OF LBJ; ABE FORTAS' CONFIRMATION; RFK
Telephone conversation # 13501, sound recording, LBJ and EVERETT DIRKSEN, 10/1/1968, 10:31AM (Item)
  • HHH'S SALT LAKE CITY SPEECH ON BOMBING HALT; CURRENT US VIETNAM POLICY, NEGOTIATING CONDITIONS; EFFECT OF SPEECH ON ELECTION; REPUBLICAN VACANCIES; JAMES RUSSELL WIGGINS' APPOINTMENT TO UN; ABE FORTAS; POSSIBLE NOMINATION OF TOM CLARK AS CHIEF
Telephone conversation # 13503, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN MCCORMACK, 10/1/1968, 10:45AM (Item)
  • LBJ AGREES TO MEET WITH CONGRESSMEN ABOUT FUNDS FOR PHILADELPHIA FEDERAL COURT BUILDING; SENATE DEBATE ON ABE FORTAS' CONFIRMATION AS CHIEF JUSTICE; HHH'S SALT LAKE CITY SPEECH ON VIETNAM BOMBING HALT; EFFECT OF SPEECH ON ELECTION; RECENT ELECTION
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/9/1968 (Friday) (Item)
  • od y now b e f o r e the D e m o c r a t i c p a rty . A nd h e d id n o t s e e m e n t h u s i a s t i c f o r G e o rg e W a lla c e w hom h e c o n s i d e r e d q u ite s tr o n g . . / /■I I w a s j u s t ab o u t to e x h a u s t the i n t e
  • Weaver; Lady Bird meets Senator James Eastland's plane & they tour the LBJ Ranch; small unit housing project; LBJ Park meeting; renovations to the LBJ Ranch house; LBJ, Lady Bird & Senator Eastland tour ranches; Abe Fortas' Supreme Court nomination