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Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

connections with PWA, and that's where he first knew Abe Fortas, Tom Corcoran, Ben Cohen and that sort of thing. I just almost would be positive that Lyndon was the one that made the proposals to the President and the one that was successful in obtaining

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, Kermit Gordon, interview 4 (IV), 4/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. There were a number of Cabinet members around the table, Clark Clifford was there, Abe Fortas was there, and I'm sure Larry OrBrien was there. And a number of other such people, to talk specifically about the poverty program. The one thing every person

Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

last meetings with Johnson was in the l~hite House after it was clear that Abe Fortas was not going to be confirmed. He'd gotten mixed up in--and I said to LBJ, "Why don't you appoint Hayne Morse to the Supreme Court? He'd be confirmed

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 20 (XX), 4/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

guess Abe Fortas, [Clark] Clifford, probably others--who had been involved with him over the years. Obviously he would be eliciting their views. Here is a president who has to have some concern about the political fallout from Vietnam. This could cause

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Clark Clifford and Abe Fortas to kill the damned story. You can't hide a bull fiddle in a Volkswagen. F: It would have been worse if leaked. W: Yes. It's just too bad that you sometimes do things with your eye on the irmnediate short-range

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, Justice Black is not a chief justice; he's one of the associate justices. It's just as fascinating. I've been rather interested in the recent controversy on Justice [Abe] Fortas' appointment. So few people have realized that an associate justice has

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in that job would have had the kind of access that somebody on the White House staff had or a cabinet officer had would have been if he were a good friend of the President's, if he were a Bill Deason, or an Abe Fortas, or a Clark Clifford or somebody like

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was in the Pentagon then. Among the things I do remember is getting Abe Fortas and McGeorge Bundy and Vance I guess down to the Dominican Republic to get [Joaquin] Balaguer put in power. But I think, you know, Johnson always thought that Fulbright didn't like

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? And I think he always regarded the ABA as kind of a stuffy organization. I am dimly beginning to remember actually a meeting with the ABA Judicial Selection Committee or the ABA president, somebody which may have come during the [Abe] Fortas-- G: He

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. . . . And then in the afternoon at three o'clock he's got [Abe] Fortas and [Clark] Clifford in the office with him. They're going over the State of the Union. He wouldn't let anybody in. Then he starts this whole series of calls to me and Valenti. G: Making further changes? C

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

if he called himself. It may not be logged in. C: God. [Abe] Fortas is really all over this. Okay. In any case, let's get on with this. G: You think this is about April 4, 1966? C: I think this happened on April 4. Well, I just, maybe I'm wrong

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 2 (II), 2/18/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. And the idea was not to pinpoint this one box, but to break the entire election down and just see who won it and who lost it. And they were unwilling to do that." And he said, "At four in the afternoon, Abe ----------,------------LBJ Presidential Library

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

Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and got an apartment in a hotel, and went-to work at Arnold, Fortas, and Porter with the understanding that I could campaign. Of course, Abe Fortas supported Lyndon Johnson, but the fi rm had a ra.ther wide acceptance of political views, and really

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 4 (IV), 6/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

app are nt. The newspapers in o ther countries make g reat to-do ab out the Presid e n t's security . I've got a picture tak en in Aust ral ia pr inted in a newspaper there. I had a radi o in my hand , and I bent over to tell the President
Experiences with Presidential foreign travel; importance of availability of communication; Presidential speeches; LBJ’s foreign relations; White House staff press briefings; Marvin Watson; 75% free hand with the press; Fortas/Thornberry nomination

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that Abe Fortas and Tom Corcoran and Ed Weisl are going to try to get us some contributions, and a lot of absolutely delightful, sarcastic, substantive letters from Jim Rowe especially. G: LBJ seems to have had more support from labor nationally that year

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at our house in those days was likely to have a mixture of, oh, say Stu Symington and Abe Fortas and Don Cook and Senator [Alvin] Wirtz from Texas when he was up, Bill Douglas, the Tom Clarks, the Speaker any time we could get him, Fred Vinson, who

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, I think, we ought to develop. Because, you see, Lyndon Johnson had been in government some thirty-odd years. And he knew from his long contacts with Abe Fortas and with the man Wirtz who was Under Secretary of Interior-M: Alvin Wirtz? C: Alvin

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recommended on particular programs--take into account the budget that he had put before the Congress, and then to fit everything into that. Had I known in advance, had Abe Fortas said at the beginning, or Joe Califano at some stage had told me that "We want

Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins and Alice Hopkins, interview 4 (IV), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, through Tommy Corcoran and Abe Fortas and a 11 the people tha t had to do with PWA public works. He and Tom Corcoran became friends very early. To that extent he was in and around the periphery of the White House even as a youngster, even before he

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, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and Clark Clifford and Abe Fortas to accept Walter Jenkins' resignation immediately; I felt that that was not the right tactic--that it would be a little bit too much--it would smack too much of abandoning a man who certainly had been a long, faithful

Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

relationships with Eppie [Ephraim] Evron, who was the Israeli minister, number two in the Israeli embassy. I'm sure it came to President Johnson through Abe Fortas, Arthur and Mathilde Krim, and a number of his personal friends who were leaders in the American

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

this tragedy occurred in Dallas, the President came back here as President--Mr. Johnson. My wife and I and Abe Fortas and his wife were at the Elms where he was then living just after he came back, and I saw the enormous and unique burden he was carrying

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, incidentally, that both [Clark] Clifford and [Abe] Fortas were at that meeting. In any case, I never heard anything more about going to work for the White House until the day that Bill Moyers was announced as press secretary. And I was just reading that over

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