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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, 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, 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, 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, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • perhaps, anecdote which I could mention, and this would be just at the end, is that the President once said to me that the only people in whom he could really have confidence in terms of good solid judgments in international affairs were [Abe] Fortas
  • Biographical information; contact with LBJ; Policy Planning Council; short-circuiting channels of communication; October 1966 trade speech; Ludwig Erhard; Harmel Exercise; Vietnam; foreign policy brain trust for Humphrey; Abe Fortas; Clark Clifford
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • him had supported the establishment of this commission, he told you to talk to Abe Fortas. L: Yes. He did, yes. G: Do you recall your conversation with Abe Fortas, and what he told you to do? L: Was it [Myer] Feldman again who was the counsel
Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • into the South; Abe Fortas; reporters and public opinion on the war; the effect of the news media; evaluation of other reporters in Vietnam; American generals in Vietnam; locations and dates of his field reporting; covering the Communist side of the war; books
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • was the press secretary, [and he met] purely so that he would be aware of what was going on. Walt Rostow, and, occasionally, Vice President Humphrey would attend. time, Justice Fortas would attend. From time to Before he was secretary of defense
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Komer summarizing the contents and saying, "It's mostly a lot of flowery garbage." What he had done is sent it around to his kitchen cabinet. He sent it to Abe Fortas; he sent it to Clark Clifford; he sent it to Dean Acheson; I forget who the others
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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
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, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the presidency. He brought other people and there were several changes at the same time. I don't remember them all. I think, incidentally, he brought Moyers in and Fortas in at the same time, didn't he? t'l : Pre t ty c 1os e _ R: It was in the same
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ,r--tr. Justice Fortas ~"/ould attend the luncheons. From time to time--this was after General Taylor returned from being retired as ambassador to South Vietnam--General Taylor would attend. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , of somebody at that level, is there? H: Well, not especially when . . . I mean, you could fire a guy if, like Mr. Fortas, he accepted a bribe or something. M: Yes, yes, right. H: But when it's a disagreement over policy, no. I'll tell you the story as I
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . But obviously he was getting it from somebody. B: Of course he does talk regularly with outsiders in the sense of Mr. Fortas, for example, I assume. G: And Mr. Clifford before he came in and others. get done. So this is how these things But you don't have
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)