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  • LBJ CONGRATULATES FORTAS ON UNANIMOUS SENATE COMMITTEE VOTE IN FAVOR OF HIS NOMINATION TO SUPREME COURT
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 8527, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 8/10/1965, 1:30PM
  • ABE FORTAS
  • RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN; ABE FORTAS IS ON HOLD DURING THIS CONVERSATION
  • DIRKSEN WISHES LBJ HAPPY BIRTHDAY; DIRKSEN'S OPPONENT; LBJ'S HEALTH; DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION; PARIS PEACE TALKS; CANCELLATION OF POPE PAUL'S VIETNAM TRIP; ADVERSE EFFECT OF BOMBING HALT; APPOINTMENTS OF ABE FORTAS AS CHIEF JUSTICE, DIRKSEN'S FCC
  • s the T r u m a n B a lc o n y . So I s e t t l e d down t h e r e a s the lig h t f a d e d a n d p h o n e d Abe to d i s c u s s the u s u a l a r r a y of p r o b le m s I s a v e f o r h im . And w h ile I w a s ta lk in g , Lyndon c a m e
  • for Johnson family and LBJ Ranch; Lady Bird walks White House grounds and uses Truman Balcony to speak with Abe Fortas on telephone; Fortases come for coffee; Arthur Goldberg as possible nominee to UN; Fortas to Supreme Court