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Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson was there talking with Clark Clifford and Abe Fortas, who was not Justice at the time. He was still the President's lawyer. And I told Mrs. Johnson what the President had stated, and Clark Clifford and Abe Fortas were against it. They said Mrs
Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to me on a number of occasions, asked me if had any objection or any reticence about letting Abe Fortas work with me on the brief. And I said of course not; that I'd like to work with Abe Fortas, know him; and besides, two LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 37 (XXXVII), 11/14/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the meeting with [Harry] McPherson, [Abe] Fortas on the eleventh-(Interruption) G: You were saying that the McPherson-Fortas meeting-- C: I don't think that meeting had--I was just looking up . . . No, that probably related to the D.C. Crime Bill, which
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 42 (XLII), 2/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to be a topic we talk about because among other things [Abe] Fortas was deeply involved in whether the President had authority to do that. And that led to my suggesting we set up a meeting the next day which the President set up and add [Jack] Connor, [Willard
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • getting closer. (Long pause) Now this is in my office on August 29. This is not with the President. If this is August 29, this is [Abe] Fortas--looks like Fortas--saying that any cutback in domestic programs is wrong on the merits and on the politics
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 F: Did the President discuss with you in any way the appointment of Abe Fortas as Chief Justice? S: He mentioned to me over the phone one Sunday that I recall, tha t he had narrowed his prospects down to Fortas; he was thinking
  • housing; House concurrence on Senate’s open housing bill; April riots; joint session; Fortas nomination; gun control; Commission on Causes and Prevention of Violence; Yarborough’s opposition to his appointment to the Fifth Circuit; D.C. Circuit
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • years; Alvin Wirtz; Colorado River Authority; 1941 and 1948 campaigns; Wage and Hour Bill; 1960 and 1964 Presidential elections; LBJ’s stand on civil rights; LBJ’s place in history; LBJ’s naval service; Abe Fortas appointment.
"LBJ as I Knew Him," by Mildred Stegall (Item)
  • . One day my buzzer rang and the President told me to get in touch with Abe Fortas right away and for us to come to the Oval Office immediately. I called Mr. Fortas who was a close friend and advisor to LBJ. The President often discussed matters with him
  • Stegall's duties; Stegall's access to, and use of, confidential files; an incident in which LBJ was concerned that Stegall or Abe Fortas had leaked information from an FBI file; Stegall's and LBJ's opinions of Walter Jenkins; LBJ's temper; how LBJ would make
Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • an institute devoted to heart disease, cancer and stroke; JFK's lack of support for health issues; Abe Fortas' and Myer Feldman's work for LBJ; the President's Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer and Stroke; the idea of regional National Institute of Health
Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • perhaps, anecdote which I could mention, and this would be just at the end, is that the President once said to me that the only people in whom he could really have confidence in terms of good solid judgments in international affairs were [Abe] Fortas
  • Biographical information; contact with LBJ; Policy Planning Council; short-circuiting channels of communication; October 1966 trade speech; Ludwig Erhard; Harmel Exercise; Vietnam; foreign policy brain trust for Humphrey; Abe Fortas; Clark Clifford
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • rang, and it was Abe Fortas, who was in town or in Dallas stopping momentarily on the way to some destination. I don't know whether this story's been told before, but anyway, Abe changed his plans and came immediately to the hotel. I had known Abe
  • ; LBJ’s 1937 campaign for Congress; Claude Wild’s influence on LBJ as his campaign manager; Lady Bird; Fort Worth incident to keep LBJ off the runoff ballot; Abe Fortas’ prepared opposition paper.
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 2 (II), 5/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Krim -- II -- 3 of the USIA and it was going to be broadcast through the facilities of the USIA. It was also during this period that he talked about Abe Fortas, who he had just appointed to the Supreme Court, and as I told you
  • Baker, Robert Kennedy and wiretapping; President Kennedy’s record; LBJ on civil rights and voting rights; Richard Russell; the LBJ Presidential Library; the appointment of Abe Feinberg’s brother to the Circuit Court; relations with Pakistan; first visit
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • place somewhere along the line here. I think it was just before he decided on the bombing halt. He invited Abe Fortas and Clark Clifford to attend that meeting. Neither of them were members, of course, of the National Security Council. I remember his
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • intel­ lectual associated with Adlai Stevenson, for whom he did not have a high regard. F: Yeah. Did Jim Rowe or Phil Graham ever talk to you ab:>ut his Presi­ dential ambitions or their ambitions for him outside of wh1t you've already said? S
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • think I've done anything with it-I've read all the reports that have come out of the FCC: been in to see me about it. nobody has As a copyright lawyer, I was shocked at the Supreme Court's decision in the Fortnightly case, for which Justice Fortas
  • ; Correspondence; anti-Semitism; Fortas nomination
Oral history transcript, Birch Bayh, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • they could appoint their own man; which is what happened. I mean, it was just totally inconsistent to see some of those people just suddenly rear up and criticize Abe Fortas for things that existed all along when they didn't oppose his original nomination
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • him had supported the establishment of this commission, he told you to talk to Abe Fortas. L: Yes. He did, yes. G: Do you recall your conversation with Abe Fortas, and what he told you to do? L: Was it [Myer] Feldman again who was the counsel
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 2 (II), 12/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • they wanted. She could take care of that beautifully. She also knew her way around Washington quite well, because she'd been a secretary for Senator Wirtz when he was undersecretary. She also knew Abe Fortas. Fortas was still down, I believe, in the department
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 41 (XLI), 1/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • right. Heller did. I see my memo reflects. Heller is hot to suspend the investment tax credit. I guess the President has me checking with [Abe] Fortas who thinks the investment tax credit should be suspended but doesn't think it's enough. And Fortas
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , [Abe] Fortas, [Alan] Boyd, and the Fahy board, were for one or another kind of compulsory arbitration, ranging from legislating the Fahy panel report into place, to having some presidential board in effect do the same thing. [Clark] Clifford wanted
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • indicated an interest in returning to serve in that go·vernment. F: Indicated to whom? S: I imagine to Abe [Fortas], because I was in his firm. have been the route that it took. F: At any rate, you Ire back now. in? So that may I just don't know
Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ever hear LBJ talk about Justice [Abe] Fortas' resignation, that case? W: No. G: Do you, Mr. Winters, ever recall when Abe Fortas resigned from the Supreme Court? Never heard him talk about that? MW: No. G: I have a note here that you witnessed
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ; International Atomic Energy Agency; Arthur Goldberg; Vasili V. Kuznetsoz; Nikolai T. Federenko; Mendelevich; Archie Alexander; Dr. Edward Teller; Article 6; Abe Fortas; Congressman Frances Bolton; Ambassador Llewelyn Thompson; Harold Brown; Frederick Charles
Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • into the South; Abe Fortas; reporters and public opinion on the war; the effect of the news media; evaluation of other reporters in Vietnam; American generals in Vietnam; locations and dates of his field reporting; covering the Communist side of the war; books
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 3 (III), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : Ted Gittinger PLACE: Ambassador Battle's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Let me begin by saying I found it intriguing that in your first oral history interview with us you mentioned your close relationship with Dean Acheson, Abe Fortas
  • Battle's relationships with Dean Acheson, Abe Fortas, and William Fulbright; John Badeau; foreign relations between the United States and Egypt, especially regarding PL 480 and wheat; Gamal Abdel Nasser's speeches regarding Egypt's relations
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • people that day, but at least I was one of them. And I said I was coming to Washington, and he said, "Why don't you come for dinner Sunday night?" And I did. F: At The Elms? L: At The Elms. Abe Fortas was there, and the child of the governor
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • why, but they sit with a finger on power. G: After Nixon's election, and I gather even before, when he saw that the [Abe] Fortas nomination was in trouble, he thought about naming someone else chief justice, and one of the people under consideration
  • with the Soviets; Abe Fortas' nomination as Supreme Court chief justice; the bombing halt in October 1968 and subsequent failed negotiations with the North Vietnamese; Averell Harriman and Cyrus Vance as negotiators; LBJ's inability to get what he wanted from
Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , was in Washington, and he visited the law firm of Arnold, Fortas and Porter, and Abe Fortas took him down--they had a sort of a hospitality room in the basement of the law office--and asked Ed Harte, "Ed, do you know a fellow named George Parr down in South Texas
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • was the press secretary, [and he met] purely so that he would be aware of what was going on. Walt Rostow, and, occasionally, Vice President Humphrey would attend. time, Justice Fortas would attend. From time to Before he was secretary of defense
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 3 (III), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , we're ruined" reaction? V: Oh, no, nothing about that at all. calls. I Then he placed several other phone know one was to Abe Fortas to get his judgment about this. And then he talked to Mrs. Johnson. Then at some point, I don't know to whom
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • guess, so he had a group of old friends. They were men like Abe Fortas, Tommy Corcoran, Jim Rowe, and then friends up in the House and Senate, and at no time was our relationship anything like as close at those. It had just come about, really
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • community had a particular interest. That was about the extent of it. I don't recall the Abe Fortas nomination becoming a pre-eminent issue. From our polls and I believe reflected in Gallup and Harris, there seemed to be two overriding issues: Vietnam
  • of nuclear arms; Abe Fortas' nomination as Supreme Court chief justice; the effect of George Wallace's candidacy on both Nixon and Humphrey; voting results in New Jersey and Illinois; the effect of polling and publicizing poll results; poll accuracy; Ohio
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Especially you would hear this when he thought that I was taking too long on getting something through the department: "Now, if it had been Abe Fortas he'd have had that through the department two weeks ago and been working on something else. You're still
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • These personal characteristics held him And I think this led him to lean on people who would butter him up, or in any case would be lacking in complete candor, or would put him into things when he should have stayed out of them. I think the story of Abe Fortas
  • Ky; Robert Komer; Tex Goldschmidt; Nguyen Van Thieu; RMN; Khrushchev; Max Milliken; William Westmoreland; William Gaud; Henry Kissinger; Phil LaFollette; Mike Monroney; Abe Fortas; Harold Ickes.
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 2 (II), 7/9/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Bob Murphy and Abe Fortas. Abe was always [remainder of sentence inaudible]. This time, I think there was more briefing, a little more systematic briefing. We came down the night before. We had dinner with Rusk, and I think Bob McNamara
Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : No, that was one of the imitations that they gave. What he did--he set this up entirely with Abe Fortas. That has to [be] stated in order to understand what happened. 18 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Komer summarizing the contents and saying, "It's mostly a lot of flowery garbage." What he had done is sent it around to his kitchen cabinet. He sent it to Abe Fortas; he sent it to Clark Clifford; he sent it to Dean Acheson; I forget who the others