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Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that he had affecting himself in such an extremely important way was carefully handled, was treated in the best possible way. B: Were you working with anyone else, sir? For example, I know Abe Fortas was working. C: Yes, I had some discussions

Oral history transcript, Dan H. Fenn, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/18/1972, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

relationship there. But the White House itself certainly never intervened in a particular decision, even in a sensitive one like the Swiss watch business, and in which Abe Fortas, of course, was deeply involved as a lawyer. M: But not in relation to Mr

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a couple of meetings. I remember [Clark] Clifford was there, I was there, [Abe] Fortas was there. finally got out. He shouldn't have been there, and he He said to me one day, "I shouldn't be at these meetings," and I said, "No, you shouldn't

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 9 (IX), 7/14/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Well, I don't know that he did. I know that they didn't agree on things, but I think each one understood the other. G: Did they talk that evening about any of the issues that they disagreed on, like the Abe Fortas nomination? R: I don't think

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

contacted me about it, and I checked it out and I discovered Walter had been picked up in that infamous men's room at the Y[MCA] near the Capitol. I called him; he claimed he didn't know anything about it, which may well be, because both Abe Fortas and Clark

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the trees for his Inaugural Committee. Carol Fortas, as Treasurer of the Society for a More Beautiful Capital, presented the daffodils 18 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Biographical information; McCone Commission; Watts riots; role of deputy attorney general; judicial appointments; Abe Fortas; Crime Commission; Crime Control Act; Newark riot; Detroit riots; contingency plans; MLK assassination; Washington D.C

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 3 (III), 12/2/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Biographical information; McCone Commission; Watts riots; role of deputy attorney general; judicial appointments; Abe Fortas; Crime Commission; Crime Control Act; Newark riot; Detroit riots; contingency plans; MLK assassination; Washington D.C

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

talk to you about this? T: I never discussed it with him. F: Did you have any role at all in the nomination of Abe Fortas to the chief justiceship? 10 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http

Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that's a fair assumption, and also to Abe Fortas, with whom he was very close. G: Can you recall the advice of either of these men? W: Actually, I was not privy to any of this. At that time I was still probably third or fourth down on the pecking

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Clifford and maybe through [Abe] Fortas--I just can't remember--we sent out the word that we would certainly audit the hell out of the expense accounts of the executives of these companies. G: Was that easy to do? Was that something that IRS would

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of compulsory arbitration or have to vote on the issue of breaking a strike which he thought would hurt--these are the Great Society Democrats-hurt them get reelected. I had a meeting with Clifford and [Abe] Fortas and Wirtz and we talked about we've got to get

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the merger. When did that merger issue come up? The end of 1966? The Penn-Central? G: It started long before that. C: Yes, but when did we have the meetings and [Abe] Fortas--I can't remember. We got a paper on it. B: Thanksgiving. 1966. C: So it's

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the stuff on that. Because it's got a lot of both Romney and [Abe] Fortas and the difficult presidential thing. I'd also like to get when Romney returned from Vietnam and changed his mind about Vietnam and said he was brainwashed. I think it was John Roche

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to attribute it to. I think maybe he knew that now was the time that he had to be. And, on Stevenson's side, his chief legal counsel was Clint Small. I believe Charlie Francis and John Cofer were ours. G: Now it was here that Abe Fortas appeared on the scene

Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in August of 1964. I had planned to leave I had an opportunity to go into teaching and talked with Carol Agger and Abe Fortas about going into academic life. Carol Agger suggested it might be propitious to wait until after the election

Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

just had to get rid of that bastard, and we had to get somebody in--not our man necessarily, but a man whose thinking would be more along the lines of ours. G: He sent Abe Fortas down there, as I recall? J: Gosh, I didn't recall that. G: You don't
Jacobsen's early work for LBJ; protocol for entering LBJ's office; a trip to Camp David with LBJ; allowing LBJ to relax from the stress of his duties; Ambassador W. Tapley Bennett, Jr., Abe Fortas, and Tom Mann in the Dominican Republic in 1965

Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

was Abe Fortas who got to be quite a fellow in his day . But Abe Fortas wrote the pleadings, and of course they were accepted and filed, while all of those great lawyers, they were all helpful and their names meant a lot, but as I've done in recent

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with Abe Fortas or with somebody, nevertheless, he was doing some double-checking back with me, and there was a certain kind of not only immediate need, but a sense that I was trying to do a job the way he wanted it done. He, of course, went way out of his

Oral history transcript, Fred Korth, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

early education and dyslexia; Abe and Carol Fortas; Oveta Culp Hobby; the Johnsons' friendship with Billy Graham; Billy Graham's and the Johnsons' religious beliefs and backgrounds; Mrs. Johnson's relationship with the press; Charles and Jane Engelhard

Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

--not only supported it, stimulated it. Because I was in the bedroom when Abe Fortas and Clark Clifford, Johnson's bedroom at night, told him no American president has ever lost a war and so on. I had always been opposed so I used to argue against

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

have been in February or March, which we just did, because that's one trip that I went on with him, and it was really--he went to see all the troops off. G; Let me ask you about the Abe Fortas nomination. This is something that really heats up in July

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Speeches were fashioned as a result of the issues that we had de- termined were the ones that we wanted to hit. Clark Clifford and Abe Fortas were involved as allies on the outside

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to go any other way. F: Did the original Fortas nomination concern you one way or another? W: No. F: So you had no hand in that? W: No. F: Was there any feeling as far as you know around the Department of LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 5 (V), 4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

you tell him? K: I was in favor of no bombing from the beginning. I had had debates with him in 1965, at the time of that first big bombing halt, where he had said that the only two people who really were strong were [Abe] Fortas and Clifford

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the whole matter, but there were two occasions when I had to face it. One was the interview for the Warren Commission, which basically went to how many shots did I hear and that sort of thing. And the other occasion occurred a long time afterward when Abe

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and Dick Neuberger. R: Could be. Oh, hard to tell. Do you remember that? You know, Morse was very cantankerous. Morse deliberately loved to pick fights. That goes way back. He picked one with Abe Fortas when Fortas was under secretary

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 11 (XI), 4/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for him, though? J: Well, he'd been, along with Abe Fortas, just his closest adviser all the way through. G: Is that rig ht? J: Just about number one. him. He really respected Ed Weisl and he leaned on He came to Washington to be counsel to what

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- IX -- 17 Texas. Abe Fortas had a Tennessee beginning, Memphis I think it was. Of course, Tom Corcoran was a hardy Irish Rhode Islander

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

not all stag. I was included in some--I remember, with Abe and Carol Fortas and Bill Douglas, and many times of good conversation. The New Deal, although battered in some respects and the clouds of war already gathering over us, they were a mighty vigorous

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Hacker, and Ag Stacy and the Perry Basses and the Jim Barnets. Then there was the big reception for the governors as part of the inaugural event. And then a very civilized, quiet evening at Abe and Carol Fortas', always one of my favorite homes to go

Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] Goldberg, Johnson, he did appoint [Abe] Fortas, but when he went off I don't think that a Jew should have been appointed necessarily. That's how I feel about it. G: Leaving aside your doctrinal belief, he did decide to appoint a black. Was Thurgood

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

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