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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 63 (LXIII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1990 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comments by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: With regard to the [Abe] Fortas nomination [as chief justice
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , Tommy Corcoran, Abe Fortas, and many of us would gather over there on the big back porch he had there. F: It wasn't any sort of command performance quality about this. You LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • Texas broadcasting business; appointment of Abe Fortas to Supreme Court.
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 11/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to say he acceded. I mean, Ramsey was not one to do things he didn't approve of. Now we had here--where did we have the [Abe] Fortas--? Didn't you have the notes about his conversations with the President destroying the tape? No? That all just appears
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not. G: You didn't go. It was during this period that [inaudible] nominated Abe Fortas to succeed Earl Warren as Chief Justice. Do you recall that issue? C: I do recall it very well. Insofar as the issue itself, I don't know any more than maybe
  • involving Vietnam; the riots in Washington, D.C., following Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death; Robert F. Kennedy's death and his personality; Abe Fortas' nomination as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; the 1968 presidential election; George Wallace's
Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEWEE: JUSTICE ABE FORTAS
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  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Abe Fortas
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 3 (III), 3/25/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it was purely incidental. I think he really thought Goldberg would be the greatest thing that could happen to this country in the United Nations. G: The successor on the Court was, of course, Abe Fortas. J: Yes. G: Why did he appoint Abe Fortas? J: Oh
  • appointment as solicitor general; Arthur Goldberg becoming ambassador to the United Nations and his skill as a negotiator; Abe Fortas' appointment to the Supreme Court; Jacobsen's involvement with the Johnsons' legal and financial matters; Fortas as adviser
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 18 (XVIII), 1/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • conference, the [Abe] Fortas thing, the John Chancellor thing--did I tell you? No? The day we announced the build-up of troops which was the first week I was there, I think, we went to the Pentagon that morning. He took me with him for a cost reduction
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 13 (XIII), 9/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , probably led by Abe Ribicoff, and that Wilbur Mills flatly stated he didn't think that an excise tax bill was a proper vehicle to impose safety regulations in the auto industry. And he refused to go along with the suggestion. It was a good idea, though. G
  • ; Arthur Goldberg's resignation from the Supreme Court and appointment as United Nations (UN) ambassador; Adlai Stevenson as UN ambassador; Abe Fortas' appointment to the Supreme Court; Lyndon Johnson's (LBJ) relationships with Abe Fortas and Clark Clifford
Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to all--as Johnson went into the White House. I think they worked together very well. did not always agree. MG: Of course, they But, still, they had a good relationship. In the interests of time, let's look at the [Abe] Fortas nomination in 1968
  • rights; LBJ’s speech at University of Michigan launching the Great Society legislative program; LBJ’s success dealing with Congress was legendary; objections to Justice Fortas in 1968 as political maneuver to prevent Nixon making an appointment; Democrats
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 59 (LIX), 1/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and chair this board. Therefore, he decided that he would have to retire immediately before he took the seat on the board, which now I recall is why, when he walked in that room and saw Abe Fortas-- G: What happened? LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it developed and it started slowly into '63. As we got into '64 I began to go over more often. I began to find out after awhile that Abe Fortas and I were being called on together. The President might talk with us during the day, or we might go over
  • Abe Fortas; deterioration of Democratic Party machinery; John Bailey; prior knowledge of 3/31 announcement; Homer Thornberry; 1968 Democratic Convention; relationship with President eroded in 1968 over Vietnam; McNamara’s move to the World Bank.
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the President called you that first afternoon that Justice Warren intended to resign, did he tell you then that he was naming Abe Fortas? D: Oh, no. No, the President and I sat there for quite a long time. F: Did you see him at the White House? D: Yes
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was wound up there was something else. G: Now in June he met with Earl Warren, who indicated that he wanted to step down as chief justice. you know, to succeed him. And the President named Abe Fortas, as Do you have any insights into that whole LBJ
  • The day and night of March 31, 1968; meeting with RFK; HHH's bid for the Presidency; MLK assassination; Fortas nomination; RFK assassination; 1968 Democratic National Convention; LBJ's night reading
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • importance--the Non-Proliferation Treaty ,vas he fore the Senate. There were other legislative programs that had to go through that this was blocking. F: If you had to sacrifice anything, in a was T: ~he sense~ sacrificing Abe Fortas easiest thing
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • at hearings. B: This particular aspect was also discussed in advance of the public nomination? That is, whether or not if Abe Fortas were nominated, he should agree to appear before the Senate? C: I can't recall that time sequence accurately. blended
  • 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, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ], gets shown to and discussed with people the President trusts, like Clark Clifford; Dean Rusk; Abe Fortas--I don't know if Abe Fortas saw this one, frankly, because of the problems of Supreme Court Justices being too involved in White House matters
  • for the Jewish community in U.S.; Six-Day War; LBJ’s “image” problems; moods; Abe Fortas nomination.
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 3 (III), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • sure that he talked to Dick Rus sell about it, and I'm sure he talked to Abe Fortas about it, and I bet he talked to John Connally about it. John Connally served a very interesting role in that campaign, in that he traveled around the country, and he
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with the judgment of older men. At that particular time, also, many times I would be called in at the same time Abe Fortas was called in. That was before he went on the bench. Oftentimes the President would submit a matter to both of us to see how we would react
Oral history transcript, Roger Stevens, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the arts, before there was an arts council. I of course worked with Abe Fortas and Myer Feldman, who at that time was an assistant and 1egal counsel for the President. We discussed ways and means of getting a bill through Congress to start an arts
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to decide how he was going to handle income of this nature. He discussed it with his tax people and asked me to discuss it with Mrs. Fortas, who is a tax lawyer in Washington, Abe Fortas' wife. I think probably the seed of the foundation may have come out
  • Thornberry and Abe Fortas; Senators Richard Russell and Everett Dirksen; separation of powers issue regarding Fortas; the effect of Humphrey’s campaign on LBJ’s work; cancelled arms control meeting with the Russians; measuring how LBJ would run against Nixon
Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : The Johnson aides in describing this are inclined to link the Lawrence nomination with the [Abe] Fortas nomination. M: Yes. That was the other judgeship. G: First of all, was there a connection here? Did Senator Russell oppose the Fortas nomination
  • of Senate opposition to Vietnam policy from 1968-1973; 1968 riots; damage caused by the appointment of Alexander Lawrence as federal judge; Abe Fortas nomination to be Chief Justice; Southern strategy in approving 1968 open housing bill; oral history project
Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • sent the nomination of Abe Fortas to be Chief Justice, and as you know this become one of his defeats in a sense. Tell me about the role of the Judiciary Committee on this. E: Well he told me .. -1 visited him in Texas in August of that year during
  • clearing through the Judiciary Committee; Johnson appointment technique; conflict between LBJ and Ralph Yarborough; Senator Russell; airplane highjacking; Abe Fortas nomination; Thornberry nomination; 1968 election; LBJ's retirement; assessment of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Goldschmidt - -14 It was just one of those good, solid confrontations that goes on. There was never any disagreement among [them]. I would add Abe Fortas to the group, because first he was director
  • First meeting with LBJ; NYA; Aubrey Williams; Congressional support for LBJ; Dillard Lasseter; John Carson; political apprenticeship of LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; Sam Rayburn; Abe Fortas; Helen Douglas; father figure to LBJ; Texas sort of expansiveness
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 33 (XXXIII), 6/13/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • bill out. That was not unusual for Johnson. I've always--I have no proof of this in any way, shape, or form. I have always thought, speculated, that, for example, one of the things that must have transpired between him and [Abe] Fortas and ultimately
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to say. At that time a lot of people were trying to get him to say that he [Black] repudiated the Klan and was sorry he ever joined it. You remember he didn't say that and how adroitly he handled the whole problem. Although Abe Fortas handled the legal
Oral history transcript, Archer Parr, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1984, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • sent him back, he said, "You go see or send your people to go see a gentleman by the name of Abe Fortas." And George's emissary at that time to see Abe Fortas over there was O. P. Carrillo, who was an attorney as well as one of the defendants
  • for a dam near Corpus Christi and repercussions of the selection; LBJ's advice that George Parr seek the aid of Abe Fortas; George Parr's suicide; inaccurate stories related to George Parr; how Parr spent his time in 1984.
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the White House. I returned the call, and Abe Fortas got on the wire. I had known Abe for many years, and knew, of course, that he was much involved with the Johnson Administration and very closely involved with the President. He then described what had
  • The formation of the Kerner Commission and Ginsburg's invitation to be its executive director; LBJ's belief that the 1967 race riots had been part of a conspiracy; Ginsburg's relationship with Abe Fortas; Ginsburg's first meeting with LBJ regarding
Oral history transcript, Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1967, by Mary Walton Livingston (Item)
  • place, who's now in the Cabinet, of course. Well, [Arthur E.] Tex Goldschmidt was also in the Public Power Division and so was Abe Fortas. Abe Fortas, of course, is now on the Supreme Court, and Tex Goldschmidt is Ambassador to the United Nations
Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ’ petitions; Gideon Case; foreign trips; Warren Commission; enlarging the Supreme Court; resignation of Arthur Goldberg; Warren retirement; nomination of Abe Fortas as Chief Justice; compulsory retirement age in Federal service; Nixon’s call for continuity
Oral history transcript, Milton R. Young, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh We didn't win We didn't have to retreat any- way. G: You had some contact with him during the Abe Fortas nomination for the chief justiceship. I gather that you felt that some of that Republican opposition was more
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: JOHN G. FEILD INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Feild's office, Potomac Institute, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: --various items and get you to talk about them. First of all, what was Abe Fortas' role
  • Abe Fortas' role in the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity; how LBJ's control of the Committee was undermined; John Macy; discrimination in White House hiring; NASA; federal workforce turnover; Feild's involvement
Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it easier because of the Secret Service . were there and Homer Thornberry . Abe and Carol Fortas He was talking about the assassination and what he could do to look into it for the country's sake . presidential . He was terribly calm, I thought, very I
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , such as in Commerce, or any of the regulatory commissions? P: No, I think that was the stormiest session that I ever had with a Cabinet officer. I guess the most whimsical thing was the Abe Fortas thing, where I had prepared the legislation that provided Secret
  • candidates; Fortas confirmation hearings; LBJ and RFK Commission on Vietnam; speech writing; legal work for President; Trans-Pacific Route Case
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • involved. -and I don't want to mention names by mistake. l think, Jim Rowe .. . was sort of in·and out and Tomny Corcoran was in and out; I don't think Abe Fortas was, because I've always had the impression that--at least this was my own opinion, and I
  • job offers; Siegel’s relationship with numerous staff members, including Walter Jenkins, George Reedy, Don Cook, Abe Fortas, Harry McPherson, Bill Moyers, Pauline Moore and Bobby Baker; what it’s like to work for LBJ; evaluation of LBJ as man
Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • colleagues agreed with me, that I~ou're just going to have to ride this out from a political standpoint." F: Do you look on the failure to confirm Abe Fortas for the Chief Justice position on the Supreme Court as a sort of hang-over or get-even
  • Biographical information; assessment of LBJ in House and Senate; Geneva Summit Conference; Herbert Hoover, Jr.; Nixon; Senator Earle Clements; LBJ’s heart attack; LBJ’s support of Eisenhower’s policies; nomination of Lewis Strauss and Abe Fortas
Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , I had conversations with [Abe] Fortas and with the President. I guess at three-fifteen, and then later in the day. These led to a whole series of suggestions. G: Why Fortas? Why wouldn't . . . ? C: Well, I mean, you know, we must have been
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and the guys who had been around FDR, the Jewish lawyers and contributors who had been around. So they were part of the political community that he was accustomed to. Abe Fortas, just jumping over many years, when Abe Fortas' nomination came up for chief
Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • who are off limits for one reason or another? For instance, on something involving Vietnam, would you go talk to Senator [J. William] Fulbright? On the [Abe] Fortas nomination, would you talk !o Senator [Strom] Thurmond? M: Oh, yes. I had
  • technique; arm-twisting vs. persuasion in Congressional vote getting; LBJ as Senate majority leader; Senator Dirksen; defeat of Abe Fortas’ nomination for Supreme court; President LBJ’s involvement with Congressmen and Manatos as Senate liaison; LBJ’s 1964