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Telephone conversation # 7911, sound recording, ABE FORTAS and LBJ, 5/19/1965, 11:40AM (Item)
  • FORTAS SAYS HE HAS RECEIVED CIA REPORT ON POSSIBLE CABINET APPOINTEES IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND THAT HE HAS SPOKEN WITH J. EDGAR HOOVER, OTHERS, ABOUT IMPORTANCE OF ASSURING THAT NO APPOINTEES HAVE COMMUNIST AFFILIATION
  • Telephone conversation # 7911, sound recording, ABE FORTAS and LBJ, 5/19/1965, 11:40AM
Telephone conversation # 7947, sound recording, ABE FORTAS and LBJ, 5/20/1965, 11:05AM (Item)
  • POSSIBLE WH STATEMENT TO PRESS IN RESPONSE TO NYT, WASHINGTON POST STORIES ON US TROOPS' ALLEGED AID TO IMBERT IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; LBJ TELLS FORTAS HE WANTS ALL QUESTIONS REFERRED TO ROBERT MCNAMARA, ASKS WHAT MCNAMARA HAS LEARNED ABOUT INCIDENT
  • Telephone conversation # 7947, sound recording, ABE FORTAS and LBJ, 5/20/1965, 11:05AM
Telephone conversation # 7948, sound recording, ABE FORTAS and LBJ, 5/20/1965, 11:15AM (Item)
  • LBJ RELAYS MCNAMARA'S VIEWS ON WH RESPONSE TO PRESS STORIES ON US TROOPS' ALLEGED AID TO IMBERT IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; CYRUS VANCE'S VIEW THAT STORIES ARE NOT TRUE; LBJ TELLS FORTAS TO HAVE QUESTIONS REFERRED TO DOD AND TO REITERATE LBJ'S STANDING
  • Telephone conversation # 7948, sound recording, ABE FORTAS and LBJ, 5/20/1965, 11:15AM
Telephone conversation # 8017, sound recording, BILL MOYERS and LBJ, 5/20/1965, 6:12PM (Item)
  • ABE FORTAS
  • "PRES-MCN, BUNDY [MOYERS], ARNOLD"; TIME FROM DAILY DIARY; FORTAS, MCNAMARA ARE MEETING WITH MOYERS AT TIME OF CALL; CONCURRENT RECORDING OF REF #7796, RECORDED SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH REF #8012
  • LBJ TELLS MOYERS TO KEEP STATE DEPT INFORMED OF DOMINICAN REPUBLIC EVENTS; MOYERS, FORTAS UPDATE LBJ ON MCGEORGE BUNDY'S TALKS WITH GUZMAN, CYRUS VANCE'S PRESS BRIEFING, LOYALIST ADVANCES, CEASEFIRE; MCNAMARA DISCUSSES VANCE'S ACTIVITIES, US TROOP
  • Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
Telephone conversation # 6742, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD RUSSELL, 1/22/1965, 11:15AM (Item)
  • COMMISSION TO STUDY MILITARY, CIVILIAN PAY; ABE FORTAS AS POSSIBLE CANDIDATE FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL; FORTAS' PAST REPRESENTATION OF OWEN LATTIMORE; RUSSELL REMINISCES ABOUT DEFENDING ALLEGED MURDERERS; LBJ ASKS RUSSELL TO CALL JAMES EASTLAND ABOUT
Telephone conversation # 7975, sound recording, UNIDENTIFIED MALE and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 5/20/1965, 12:55PM? (Item)
  • BUNDY ASKS TO SPEAK TO "MR. ARNOLD" (ABE FORTAS); UNIDENTIFIED MALE TELLS SIGNAL CORPS OPERATOR THAT FORTAS IS TALKING WITH LBJ; BUNDY ASKS TO HOLD FOR FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 13135, sound recording, LBJ and JAMES EASTLAND, 6/23/1968, 9:09AM (Item)
  • JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT FOR ALEXANDER LAWRENCE; APPOINTMENT OF ABE FORTAS AS CHIEF JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT; FORTAS' RECENT SPEECH ON CIVIL DISSENT; LBJ READS LIST OF CANDIDATES TO SUCCEED FORTAS, SUGGESTS REAPPOINTING TOM CLARK AND DISMISSING RAMSEY
Telephone conversation # 7706, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 5/16/1965, 6:00PM (Item)
  • ABE FORTAS
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
Telephone conversation # 8585, sound recording, LBJ and CYRUS VANCE, 8/20/1965, 10:01PM (Item)
  • ABE FORTAS
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
Telephone conversation # 7915, sound recording, BILL MOYERS and LBJ, 5/19/1965, 12:30PM (Item)
  • ABE FORTAS
  • LBJ ASKS MOYERS, VAUGHN TO 2:45P WH MEETING ON DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THOMAS MANN, ABE FORTAS ON US POLICY; CONGRESSIONAL CRITICISM; LBJ READS CABLE 1801 ON RADIO SANTO DOMINGO; FORTAS RECOMMENDS DELAY ON ACTION ON STATION; FBI
  • Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
Telephone conversation # 7742, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 5/18/1965, 3:47AM (Item)
  • ABE FORTAS
  • "2 BELTS"; "180344-0413"; BUNDY IS IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, IS DIFFICULT TO HEAR, AND IS ON HOLD 1:00; FORTAS, MCNAMARA, RUSK ARE MEETING WITH LBJ; BUNDY HAS BRIEF OFFICE CONVERSATION DURING CALL; CONTINUES ON NEXT RECORDING
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
Telephone conversation # 7743, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 5/18/1965, 3:47AM (Item)
  • ABE FORTAS
  • "2 BELTS"; "180344-0413"; BUNDY AND VANCE ARE IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND ARE DIFFICULT TO HEAR; FORTAS, MCNAMARA, RUSK ARE MEETING WITH LBJ; CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS RECORDING
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
Telephone conversation # 7759, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 5/18/1965, 2:05PM (Item)
  • ABE FORTAS
  • "APPROX FIRST 5 MIN WAITING TIME"; "BELTS MARKED 1 & 2 INSIDE"; BUNDY ON HOLD 5:10; FORTAS, RUSK, MCNAMARA, GEORGE BALL ARE MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CALL; BUNDY IS IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND IS DIFFICULT TO HEAR; CONTINUES ON NEXT RECORDING
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
Telephone conversation # 7735, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 5/18/1965, 12:01AM (Item)
  • ABE FORTAS
  • "BUNDY, LBJ, ABE F, MANN, PALMER"; "THESE TWO BELTS WERE DONE IN PRESIDENT'S BEDROOM, ARE DUPLICATES OF 12:01A CALL"; CONTINUES ON NEXT RECORDING; CONCURRENT RECORDING OF REF #7731, #7732
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
Telephone conversation # 7777, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 5/19/1965, 11:39AM (Item)
  • RUSK ASKS LBJ TO MEET WITH HIM, THOMAS MANN, ROBERT MCNAMARA AND GEORGE BALL ABOUT DOMINICAN REPUBLIC BEFORE FURTHER DECISIONS ARE MADE; LBJ'S SCHEDULE; LBJ ASKS TO INCLUDE ABE FORTAS, BILL MOYERS IN MEETING, DISCUSSES WHY HE HAS BEEN RELYING
Telephone conversation # 7962, sound recording, GEORGE REEDY and KEN GADDIS, 5/20/1965, time unknown (Item)
  • REEDY ASKS GADDIS IF ABE FORTAS IS MEETING WITH LBJ, ASKS GADDIS TO HAVE FORTAS CALL REEDY RIGHT AWAY, EVEN IF IT MEANS INTERRUPTING LBJ
Telephone conversation # 13132, sound recording, LBJ and EVERETT DIRKSEN, 6/22/1968, 8:02AM (Item)
  • RESIGNATION OF CHIEF JUSTICE EARL WARREN AND APPOINTMENT OF ABE FORTAS AS HIS SUCCESSOR; LBJ DISCUSSES CANDIDATES TO REPLACE FORTAS: RAMSEY CLARK, CLARK CLIFFORD, THOMAS KUCHEL, RICHARD HUGHES, CYRUS VANCE, HOMER THORNBERRY, HENRY "JOE" FOWLER
Telephone conversation # 13133, sound recording, LBJ and MIKE MANSFIELD, 6/23/1968, 8:43AM? (Item)
  • DISCUSSION OF APPOINTMENT OF ABE FORTAS AS CHIEF JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT AND OF CANDIDATES TO REPLACE FORTAS: ARTHUR GOLDBERG?, CLARK CLIFFORD, CYRUS VANCE; QUESTION OF HAVING TWO JEWS ON COURT; POSSIBILITY OF APPOINTING VANCE AS SECRETARY
Telephone conversation # 13211, sound recording, LBJ and TOMMY CORCORAN, 7/17/1968, 7:53AM (Item)
  • SHORTHAND NOTES PRECEDE "FORTAS, ALMOST INAUDIBLE"; POOR SOUND QUALITY; CORCORAN IS ALMOST INAUDIBLE; CONVERSATION BETWEEN LBJ AND TELEPHONE OPERATOR PRECEDES CALL; REF #13211 AND #13212 ARE SEPARATED BY SHORT UNRECORDED SEGMENT ON ORIGINAL
  • DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE TOPIC; CORCORAN APPARENTLY DISCUSSES VOTE OF UNNAMED SENATOR ON CONFIRMATION OF ABE FORTAS AS CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT AND PROMOTION OR TRANSFER OF UNNAMED NAVAL OFFICER?
Telephone conversation # 7731, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 5/18/1965, 12:01AM (Item)
  • ABE FORTAS
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
Telephone conversation # 6291, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 11/8/1964, 11:30AM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS MCNAMARA TO BRING ABE FORTAS, CLARK CLIFFORD TO RANCH TOMORROW; POSTPONEMENT OF MCNAMARA'S MEETING WITH OIL INTERESTS ON APPALACHIAN COAL; MCNAMARA'S MEETING TOMORROW WITH MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE DELEGATIONS ON CLOSING OF DEFENSE FACILITIES
Telephone conversation # 5910, sound recording, LBJ and BILL MOYERS, 10/17/1964, 8:47PM (Item)
  • 0:45 OFFICE CONVERSATION PRECEDES CALL; DAILY DIARY INDICATES LBJ IS MEETING WITH ABE FORTAS AT TIME OF CALL
Telephone conversation # 7017, sound recording, LBJ and JAMES "JIMMY" WECHSLER, 3/4/1965, 11:16AM (Item)
  • LBJ PROTESTS WECHSLER'S COLUMN ABOUT LBJ'S FRIENDSHIP WITH WILLIAM S. WHITE, EFFECT ON WHITE'S COLUMN ON U THANT, VIETNAM; US AID TO BURMA; NYT STORY ABOUT LBJ'S CLOSEST ADVISERS; ABE FORTAS; CLARK CLIFFORD; TOMMY CORCORAN; JAMES ROWE; WALTER
Telephone conversation # 7362, sound recording, LBJ and THOMAS MANN, 4/26/1965, 9:35AM (Item)
  • MANN REPORTS ON CRISIS IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; POSSIBLE NEED FOR US FORCES; ABE FORTAS; JUAN BOSCH'S POSSIBLE RETURN TO DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; AID TO PANAMA; PANAMA CANAL NEGOTIATIONS; EFFECT OF LOW SUGAR PRICES ON DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; INACCURATE PRESS
Telephone conversation # 7624, sound recording, LBJ and THOMAS MANN, 5/11/1965, 11:24AM (Item)
  • OFFICE CONVERSATION ABOUT OAS INACTION; MANN READS MEMO ON US POSITION ON POSSIBLE TALKS ABOUT DOMINICAN REPUBLIC WITH JUAN BOSCH'S REPRESENTATIVE; MANN RECOMMENDS HARRY SHLAUDEMAN ASSIST WITH TALKS; LBJ TELLS MANN TO HAVE ABE FORTAS ARRANGE TALKS
Telephone conversation # 7648, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 5/13/1965, 1:25PM (Item)
  • LBJ UPDATES MCNAMARA ON CAAMANO'S CONCERNS ABOUT US TROOPS, ABE FORTAS' NEGOTIATIONS WITH JUAN BOSCH; BUNDY TELLS LBJ HE IS CHECKING ON TRUTH OF REBEL COMPLAINTS ABOUT ALLEGED MOVEMENT OF US TROOPS TO ELECTRIC PLANT IN SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN
Telephone conversation # 7698, sound recording, LBJ and BROMLEY SMITH, 5/15/1965, 11:25AM (Item)
  • SMITH REPORTS ON ACTIVITIES OF MCGEORGE BUNDY, "MR. DAVIDSON" (ABE FORTAS), THOMAS MANN, JACK VAUGHN IN PUERTO RICO AND DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, DISCUSSES RELEASE OF LBJ'S STATEMENT AND PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT OF THEIR TRIP TO DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Telephone conversation # 7511, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 5/1/1965, 5:31PM (Item)
  • TAPLEY BENNETT'S RECENT CABLE ON CURRENT SITUATION IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, HIS CONCERNS ABOUT CONSEQUENCES OF CEASEFIRE; LBJ ASKS FOR CLARIFICATION FROM BENNETT, BRUCE PALMER ON CEASEFIRE, SUGGESTS ABE FORTAS CONTACT JUAN BOSCH ABOUT BENNETT'S
Telephone conversation # 7502, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 5/1/1965, 9:05AM (Item)
  • UPCOMING OAS MEETING ON DOMINICAN CRISIS; RECOMMENDATION FOR MORE US TROOPS; EFFORTS TO SEND BRAZILIAN, OTHER LATIN AMERICAN TROOPS; ABE FORTAS' ROLE IN NEGOTIATIONS; JOHN B. MARTIN'S CONTACTS WITH JUAN BOSCH, JAIME BENITEZ; PRESS COVERAGE OF CRISIS
Telephone conversation # 7744, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 5/18/1965, 9:45AM (Item)
  • RUSK REPORTS ON PESSIMISTIC CALLS FROM MCGEORGE BUNDY, JACK VAUGHN ON NEGOTIATIONS IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; GUZMAN'S ULTIMATUM ABOUT LOYALISTS' MILITARY ACTIVITIES; ROLE OF CAAMANO, JUAN BOSCH IN TALKS; LBJ TELLS THEM TO CALL ABE FORTAS ABOUT
Telephone conversation # 7745, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE BALL, 5/18/1965, 10:35AM (Item)
  • BALL REPORTS ON TALKS WITH THOMAS MANN, MCGEORGE BUNDY FROM DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ABOUT STATUS OF NEGOTIATIONS; SHIFT IN REBEL POSITION ON AGREEMENT; GUZMAN'S CEASEFIRE DEMAND; DOUBTS ABOUT JUAN BOSCH'S ABILITY TO CONTROL REBELS; ABE FORTAS CHANNEL
Telephone conversation # 7753, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 5/18/1965, 11:55AM (Item)
  • BUNDY READS GUZMAN'S MESSAGE SUSPENDING TALKS IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, PROTESTING ALLEGED US AID TO SAN ISIDRO, IMBERT FORCES; INCREASED REBEL ACTIVITY; DOUBTS OF GUZMAN'S ABILITY TO CONTROL GOVT; ABE FORTAS CHANNEL TO JUAN BOSCH; PROPOSED US TROOP
Telephone conversation # 7773, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 5/18/1965, 9:21PM (Item)
  • BUNDY REPORTS ON IMPROVEMENT IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, GUZMAN'S WISH TO RESUME TALKS, SUGGESTS "MR. ARNOLD"(ABE FORTAS) RESUME HIS TALKS; CYRUS VANCE'S, THOMAS MANN'S CONTACTS; US, UN POSITIONS; BUNKER'S OAS STATEMENT; QUESTION OF REPLACEMENTS FOR US
Telephone conversation # 7774, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 5/18/1965, 9:21PM (Item)
  • BUNDY REPORTS IMPROVEMENT IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, GUZMAN'S WISH TO RESUME TALKS; BUNDY SUGGESTS "MR. ARNOLD" (ABE FORTAS) RESUME HIS TALKS; CYRUS VANCE'S, THOMAS MANN'S TALKS; US POSITION
Telephone conversation # 7780, sound recording, LBJ and J. EDGAR HOOVER, 5/19/1965, 12:00PM (Item)
  • HOOVER READS INTELLIGENCE REPORTS ON DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; LBJ CRITICIZES STATE DEPT, DISCUSSES ABE FORTAS' ROLE IN NEGOTIATIONS AND LBJ'S CONCERNS ABOUT COMMUNISTS IN NEW DOMINICAN GOVT
Telephone conversation # 8412, sound recording, LBJ and ARTHUR GOLDBERG, 7/28/1965, 7:20PM (Item)
  • GOLDBERG CONGRATULATES LBJ ON PRESS CONFERENCE STATEMENT ON VIETNAM, ABE FORTAS' APPOINTMENT TO SUPREME COURT; UN RESPONSE TO STATEMENT; GOLDBERG'S TALK WITH U THANT ON PEACE EFFORTS; AVERELL HARRIMAN'S RECENT REPORT; HOUSE REPEAL OF SECTION 14-B
Telephone conversation # 8532, sound recording, LBJ and WALTER REUTHER, 8/11/1965, 7:37PM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS FOR REUTHER'S HELP ON BEAUTIFICATION BILL; ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEETING WITH LBJ; REUTHER REPORTS ON HIS RECENT MEETING WITH WORLD TRADE UNION CONGRESS ON VIETNAM, CONGRATULATES LBJ ON APPOINTMENTS OF ABE FORTAS, ARTHUR GOLDBERG, JOHN GARDNER
Telephone conversation # 8355, sound recording, LBJ and ARTHUR GOLDBERG, 7/19/1965, 8:28PM (Item)
  • LBJ TELLS GOLDBERG OF REACTION HE RECEIVED TO GOLDBERG AS CANDIDATE FOR UN AMBASSADOR; POSSIBLE ARAB REACTION TO JEWISH APPOINTMENT; ABE FORTAS' LETTER DECLINING SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENT; GOLDBERG ASKS LBJ TO CALL DIRKSEN BEFORE ANNOUNCING
Telephone conversation # 7946, sound recording, GEORGE REEDY and KEN GADDIS, 5/20/1965, time unknown (Item)
  • "[TELEPHONE] 2154"; "2, 10:45-11:15" WRITTEN ON DICTABELT; SPEED VARIES ON ORIGINAL RECORDING; OFFICE CONVERSATION WITH JACK VALENTI, ABE FORTAS ABOUT DOMINICAN REPUBLIC WHILE REEDY WAITS FOR CALLS
Telephone conversation # 7954, sound recording, GEORGE REEDY and LBJ, 5/20/1965, 11:25AM (Item)
  • "[TELEPHONE] 2154"; "3, 1130-1200 AM" WRITTEN ON DICTABELT; TIME FROM DAILY DIARY; REEDY ON HOLD 1:00; OFFICE CONVERSATION WITH ABE FORTAS PRECEDES CALL; RECORDED SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH REF #7955