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Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 74, January 2001," LBJ Library (Item)
  • about their conversations being inter­ cepted, the conversants used code names and other Lricks to conceal identities. Abe Fortas, for example, at one point used the code name '·Arnold,'' perhaps a reference to his law firm of Arnold, Fortas & Porter
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, Symposium: Legacy of the Sixties, 1999," LBJ Library (Item)
  • Assistant to President Jolinson): He had an instinctive re I for the Congr ss. A classic case was the Abe Fortas and Hom r Thornbeny nominations Ito the Supr rn Court]. We met very clay to give him vot count.· and reports. Then one da h said, "Boys the ball
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 27, 1 January 1983," LBJ Library (Item)
  • disappeared and were never heard from again. And I've always wondered if this wasn't Castro's answer, I tried to find out, but I couldn't get a damn thing out of the Justice Department's files. Abe Fortas Abe Fonas is as good, fine, patriotic, and concerned
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 85, November 2004," LBJ Library (Item)
  • . 1966, as well as two conversations in October 1966 between President Johnson and Su­ preme Court Justice Abe Fortas in which the assassination of President Kennedy is discussed. Concerns about Vietnam, the U.S. economy. and the upcoming congressio­ nal
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 38, 20 October 1986," LBJ Library (Item)
  • to hear different points of view ... I think Clark lifford would tell you the same thing because Pr sident Johnson similarly disrupted his law practice. -Abe Fortas, friend nd adviser; later Sup eme Court Justice An excellent example of a Lyndon Johnson
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 46, 15 January 1990," LBJ Library (Item)
  • and ending with Johnson's phone conversation with Abe Fortas 7 Humphrey prior to retiring at II: 15 p.m. Or one can analyze Johnson's contacts over a period of time. Did he, for instance become more isolated as his adminis­ tration progressed
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 71, 30 April 1999," LBJ Library (Item)
  • site, including those with Bes.· Abell. Morris Abram, George Aiken, Abe Fortas, Harry McPherson, Lawrence O'Brien. Carl Alben, Hubert Humphrey, John Tower, Douglass Caler, Stewart dall, and Bromley Smith. And researchers continue to visit th Library
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 76, October 2001," LBJ Library (Item)
  • as Solicitor General, the first African-American to hold the post, as well as appoint·ing A11hur Goldberg as Ambassador to the Unit- d ations and Abe Fortas to the Supreme Court. During this p riocl, Congress consid­ ered the Voting Rights bill, an omnibus