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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, 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, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)