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and dinner at AW Ranch.
4/19
Calls Kentucky Gov. Ellington and speaks with Abe Fortas. Returns to Washington,
DC via Andrews Air Force base; arrives at The Elms at 2 a.m.
4/20
Arrives at EOB at 10:15 a.m. Briefing with Mike Forrestal before 11 a.m. NSC
- or Abe Fortas or Aubrey Williams
we would sip coffee and read Doris Fleeson, or Ruth Finney, or Pearson
and AUen, or Bes1 Furman and talk with awe and a dmiration about that man
in the White House who was lifting us out of the depression.
As a Nation, we
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about their conversations being inter
cepted, the conversants used code
names and other Lricks to conceal
identities. Abe Fortas, for example, at
one point used the code name
'·Arnold,'' perhaps a reference to his
law firm of Arnold, Fortas & Porter
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Abe Fortas, new undersecretary of the Interior, was in Austin for a brief visit (a
day and a night).
LBJ reported on UT war training facilities.
8/24
Late August
LBJ speaks in Summerville and visits in Brenham.
LBJ attends Austin Bond Rally featuring
- Assistant to
President
Jolinson):
He had an
instinctive re I for the Congr ss. A
classic case was the Abe Fortas and
Hom r Thornbeny nominations Ito
the Supr rn Court]. We met very
clay to give him vot count.· and
reports. Then one da
h
said,
"Boys the ball
- disappeared and were never heard
from again. And I've always wondered if this wasn't
Castro's answer, I tried to find out, but I couldn't get a
damn thing out of the Justice Department's files.
Abe Fortas
Abe Fonas is as good, fine, patriotic, and concerned
- . elections.
5/17
LBJ is in consultation today with a number of people about a proposed wire to
Khrushchev from him, the Speaker, Fulbright and Stevenson. LBJ meets with
John Connally, Abe Fortas and Justice Douglas at 10:35; has phone conversations
with Pat
- . 1966,
as well as two conversations in October
1966 between President Johnson and Su
preme Court Justice Abe Fortas in which
the assassination of President Kennedy is
discussed.
Concerns about Vietnam, the U.S.
economy. and the upcoming congressio
nal
- to suppress a major news story
affecting the national security." Two
CLARK CLIFFORD
ABE FORTAS
hours later, at 8:09 p.m., United Press
International broke the story, and
On a friend's behalf,
•n
ffioo
·,
22
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TIME, OCTOBER 23, 1964
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AtomJ
- to suppress a major news story
affecting the national security." Two
CLARK CLIFFORD
ABE FORTAS
hours later, at 8:09 p.m., United Press
International broke the story, and
On a friend's behalf,
•n
ffioo
·,
22
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TIME, OCTOBER 23, 1964
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AtomJ
- to hear different points of view ... I think
Clark lifford would tell you the same thing because Pr sident
Johnson similarly disrupted his law practice.
-Abe Fortas, friend nd adviser; later Sup eme Court Justice
An excellent example of a Lyndon Johnson
- and ending with Johnson's
phone conversation with Abe Fortas
7
Humphrey
prior to retiring at II: 15 p.m. Or one
can analyze Johnson's contacts over a
period of time. Did he, for instance
become more isolated as his adminis
tration progressed
- site, including those with Bes.·
Abell. Morris Abram, George Aiken,
Abe Fortas,
Harry McPherson,
Lawrence
O'Brien.
Carl Alben,
Hubert Humphrey,
John Tower,
Douglass Caler, Stewart
dall, and
Bromley Smith. And researchers
continue to visit th Library
- as Solicitor General, the first
African-American to hold the post, as
well as appoint·ing A11hur Goldberg as
Ambassador to the Unit- d
ations
and Abe Fortas to the Supreme Court.
During this p riocl, Congress consid
ered the Voting Rights bill, an
omnibus
- at National City Christian Church, and later Texas State
Society reception in House Ways and Means Committee Room.
2/12
P-38. Drops by luncheon for Sen. Moreno Sanchez of Mexico and Justo Sierra,
hosted by Mansfield. Meets with Reedy, Goldberg and Fortas
- as a service to our researchers. Not intended to be complete or definitive.
discoverlbj.org
4/9
To Washington.
4/10
Meets with McCloy at 11:15, with Fortas, Goldberg, Holleman, Reedy at 11:30,
attends baseball game with JFK.
4/11
WH leadership meeting, 9
