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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

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, 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

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

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, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

on that piece of paper: Shriver. Abe Fortas and Sargent This memorandum, I assume. went forward, so that you had b/o factors, then, bearing on the decision. One was the squabbling that \'las going on as to how the thing would be organized; the other

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

much on the periphery at that time. F: Did you assist in the preparation of that talk to the joint Houses that he made? V: Yes. I was involved in that. going over it. Some of the work was done at The Elms, Ted Sorensen did the original draft; Abe

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 2 (II), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

about the business. Wasn't any use in Johnson asking my opinion about those things, because I didn't know a damn thing about them. G: Do you recall the details of the [AbeJ Fortas nomination to be chief justice of the Supreme Court? S: What kind
; Cabinet officers and the campaign; LBJ and HHH; Fortas appointment; Maine foreign trade port; LBJ and western art; LBJ and the Library

Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

; Cabinet officers and the campaign; LBJ and HHH; Fortas appointment; Maine foreign trade port; LBJ and western art; LBJ and the Library

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it. But as he always said, I put him to his test as the Majority Leader very early in my career. F: Did you--This is subjective, but do you think that his inability to get Justice Fortas confirmed as the Supreme Court Chief Justice is in any sense retaliatory
Biographical information; Appropriations Committee seat; Strauss and Fortas confirmation hearings; LBJ as Majority Leader; 1960 and 1964 campaigns; JFK; 3/31 announcement; foreign relations; his wife; exchange of committee assignment with Russell

Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

unwise choices on the Supreme Court. B: That would be Justice Marshall and Justice Fortas. T: Yes. B: I would assume that's because of their libertarian views? T: Yes, sir. They had the idea that the Court was supposed to change the Constitution

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Johnson had originally offered me a post on the Securities Exchange That's right. Commission in about '63 as his first appointment, but I just was not interested in that particular post. So I was asked--I think I saw Fortas and he said I should come

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