Discover Our Collections


  • Tag > Digital item (remove)
  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)

272 results

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ; we are fighting it in Delaware, and it was a big deal. went to the Supreme Court. There's Finally parts of it My client and I, because we were going to be up in Delaware, couldn't fight them all here. The fight was all over. We hired Abe Fortas
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , in effect, was conducting a vendetta against the appointment of Abe Fortas as chief justice? K: Well, I think vendetta is such a difficult, strong word to use. I think he can be harsh in his judgments of people and personalities. F: Are you talking about
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • much so, because on the one hand Clark Clifford and Abe Fortas, prior to Clifford coming into the cabinet, were really the hawks on Vietnam and were giving him advice that would be in a hawkish position. I didn't see Clifford really backtracking
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • -- I -- 10 ran that column for about a year and then he began to quit. began to quit him is what happened. The papers Then he began doing some writing, special articles and things. Now rather interesting, Abe Fortas was under secretary under Ickes
Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , this was a denial and a defense. The only other thing I remember of any importance at that point was the hearing before Hugo Black. his lawyer. [Abe] Fortas was I had known Black in the Senate very well, and there LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, James M. Quigley, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • around, and ready to quit and go back to the practice of law, and a little saner and more balanced living. But eventually, I was called by Ralph Dungan, and he said, "Jim, why don't you go up to Hartford? Abe Ribicoff is going to be the Secretary of HEW
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- VIII -- 11 also, executive assistant? And a little bit later [we met] Abe and Carol Fortas. So we early became
  • Washington, D.C. friendships with people such as Grace Tully, Tom Corcoran, Jim Rowe and Abe and Carol Fortas; arguments for building the dams on the lower Colorado River; LBJ's admiration for FDR; LBJ's appointment to the Naval Affairs Committee
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . B: Yes, old Abe. He probably talked to some one like Fortas, you know. G: Ultimately, did he…. B: Ultimately, yes. He said "Fine." And you know, strangely enough, we were never criticized for the appearance of those coins. The thing that we had
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Thanksgiving trying to get him to change a brief. Maybe we'll talk about him when we talk about [Abe] Fortas. Okay? G: Yes. Let's do. C: Okay, the reorganization of civil rights. . . . . What do you want to talk about now? I see LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . So, nothing happened there. When he became President--I remember the night of the assassination--I talked to Abe Fortas on the phone. This was before Johnson had gotten back to Washington, and I told Abe that I certainly hoped that all his friends
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • close and lasting personal relationship with, for example, Abe Fortas. I believe--incidentally I believed then--I don't think I'm on a record so it isn 1 t quite that strong--but I think it was a mistake for the President to ask Abe after he became
  • LBJ's intellectual powers; his sources of advice; Abe Fortas; White's brief assignment as liaison in the counternarcotics effort; named special counsel in 1965; acting on the CAB's international air cases; the airlines' influence and the role
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with and secondly, that the person has to be right there.Is that correct? M: I think that probably is true.He is the fastest learner of personality that I have ever encountered in my life. Abe Fortas once told me, when he and I were lamenting the fact
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on Congressman Johnson to get him that information. G: One has the impression that LBJ developed an assortment of contacts in the administration, people like Abe Fortas and Jim Rowe and yourself. Let me ask you to recall if you can 6 LBJ Presidential Library
  • of Congress; Jim Rowe; Abe Fortas; FDR's decision to run for a third term as president in 1940; FDR's opinion of LBJ's military service in World War II; Eleanor Roosevelt's opinion of LBJ; Roosevelt's work with civil rights legislation; the 1960 Democratic
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , Mr. [John] Hechinger, described it himself in one of our tapes. Were there a lot of instances like that? Was that fairly regular? C: That was one that I really was deeply involved in personally. I believe he did the same thing with [Abe] Fortas
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
Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , the Fortases-- M: I was going to ask if the Fortases were among the group. W: Certainly. G: I'm the one who M: You knew Mr. Fortas in another connection? G: Yes, we knew each other from early days, I don't know why. introduc~d Abe to Johnson. I'm
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , with the Reclamation Did he talk to Secretary Ickes about it? Department . B: Yes, but the fellow he relied on most of all and became friends with was the fellow he later appointed to the Supreme Court, Abe Fortas . He was a brilliant young lawyer
Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • be exact, he said, "Abe and I both know the problems arising from winning the close election." M: This is IIAbe" I. C: I. W. Abel. ~J. Abel, not Abe Fortas? After everybody had a little chuckle on that one, then he proceeded from that point. He had
Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • across the street from the United Nations, was working for the Bureau of the Interior and Abe Fortas, who is now on the Supreme Court was, I believe, over in the Interior Department, and we would •.• Congressman Johnson, Senator Wirtz, and I was fortunate
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 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, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Fortas and work with him in setting up that trust. And so I remember that I got on the phone and talked with Abe and said I was going to wait until President Johnson came horne. But then it was quite late,. eight or nine o'clock or so, and he hadn't
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • independence from time to time? R: Oh, there's no question about that. But also Morse was a battler. Morse carried on some of the strangest battles. When Abe Fortas was Under Secretary of the Interior, he made Abe's life absolutely miserable on some issue
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that could be of any help to him at all. see. This was his political strain, you Tex Goldschm.idt worked for the Interior Department, and Mike Strauss, and Abe Fortas. They were all working for Harold Ickes, so they all becalTIe great friends of Lyndon's
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . I rewrote the darned thing and I was in there the next morning; and in there were Abe Fortas and Arthur Goldberg. He had the three of us, put us together, and we worked there in the window in P-26. They agreed roughly with what I was doing
Oral history transcript, Olga Bredt Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • on to Washington. B: You didn't know Welly Hopkins. You did know-- G: No, I do not know Welly Hopkins. I have met him only. Just like friends of the senator's that I had met, too, through the years: Abe Fortas, Judge Fortas-- B: Did you know Maury Maverick? G
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [Abe] Fortas here. I wonder if he talked to Fortas about the labor thing. Are those belts [Dictabelts?] available? G: No. C: Okay. Is there any way you can check just to see whether he talked about the strike? He wonders why he got the reputation
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 out." He had sent the letter to Clark Clifford. letter to Abe Fortas. Rowe. He had sent the He had sent the letter, I think, to Jim I forget whether Dean Acheson was in it, but there were four or five members of what
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that he wanted-­ K: Yes, that's part of it. G: The other was that LBJ talked him into leaving the Court so that he could-­ K: Appoint Abe Fortas? G: Right. But the argument that he used to Goldberg was that "I need you to help with Vietnam." K
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Fortas is a great friend of mine and I recall seeing him during that period before and after he became President as a guest of the Fortases. And I remember one birthday party, for example--it was Abe Fortas' birthday and they had a party; I've forgotten
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of manhood and so on. Yet he was extremely cooperative and helpful, understanding and witty about civil rights problems throughout the time that we worked with him. The President liked him a lot.Whether that was something that was generated ab initio purely
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the language of the executive order. The first drafts were floated around among a lot of people, among whom were Abe Fortas, by the way, who unfortunately is now dead, who was Lyndon's lawyer. And I noticed in the materials you gave me, Lyndon also sent
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Bundy -- III -- 7 President's desire, stimulated by Justice [Abe] Fortas, to see if we could reach out toward the more reasonable rebels. Fortas was very close to [Juan] Bosch and thought that such a bargain could be made. The President was willing
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , had advised him over the years. I remember going to dinner in which either Jim Rowe, or Tommy Corcoran, or Abe Fortas were the guests. Or quite often it was the staff--Walter Jenkins, or whoever were the secretaries at the time. dinner. He just
Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • they offered amendments to amend the rules to make it a mere majority. F: They never could get the majority of the Senate to do it. Do you think that this recent vote against Mr. Fortas was an anti-Johnson vote or-- H: I've known Abe Fortas for about twenty