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Telephone conversation # 10653, sound recording, JUANITA ROBERTS and ABE FORTAS, 8/29/1966, time unknown (Item)
  • "8/29 MJDR/PRES/MRS. J" AND "MJDR/FORTAS" WRITTEN ON ORIGINAL DICTABELT; WH OPS LOGS LISTS CALL FROM ROBERTS TO FORTAS AT 10:46A EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME; THIS BELT WAS RECORDED AT WH; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN
  • ROBERTS DISCUSSES PRESS STORY ABOUT REPORT IN WILLIAM MANCHESTER'S UPCOMING BOOK THAT LBJ TOOK OATH OF OFFICE ON KENNEDY FAMILY BIBLE FOLLOWING JFK ASSASSINATION AND BIBLE DISAPPEARED; ROBERTS RELAYS LBJ'S REQUEST THAT FORTAS EXAMINE MISSAL
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 10653, sound recording, JUANITA ROBERTS and ABE FORTAS, 8/29/1966, time unknown
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 10666, sound recording, ABE FORTAS and SARAH HUGHES, 8/29/1966, 1:30PM (Item)
  • "8/29 FORTAS/SARAH HUGHES 1:30P" WRITTEN ON ORIGINAL DICTABELT; THIS BELT RECORDED AT WH; HUGHES IS DIFFICULT TO HEAR
  • FORTAS REVIEWS QUESTION OF BOOK USED BY LBJ IN TAKING OATH OF OFFICE AS RAISED IN WILLIAM MANCHESTER'S BOOK, LARRY O'BRIEN'S RECOLLECTIONS; HUGHES DESCRIBES "CATHOLIC BIBLE"; FORTAS SAYS BOOK IS IN WH CUSTODY, IS NOT KENNEDY FAMILY BIBLE; PRESS
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 10666, sound recording, ABE FORTAS and SARAH HUGHES, 8/29/1966, 1:30PM
Telephone conversation # 7686, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 5/14/1965, 8:45PM (Item)
  • SLIP AND DAILY DIARY LIST THIS AS CALL FROM "MR. DAVIDSON"; FORTAS IS DIFFICULT TO HEAR; CONTINUES FROM 2 PREVIOUS RECORDINGS AND ON NEXT RECORDING; CONCURRENT RECORDING OF REF #7689, #7690
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 7686, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 5/14/1965, 8:45PM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 9477, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 1/10/1966, 8:40PM (Item)
  • MIRIAM OTTENBERG'S ARTICLE ON BOBBY BAKER; JUSTICE DEPT ATTORNEYS ON BAKER CASE; RFK; FORTAS SUGGESTS HHH AND DEAN RUSK GO WITH US DELEGATION TO FUNERAL OF INDIA'S PRIME MINISTER SHASTRI; UK DELEGATION; PROPOSED DEAN RUSK, AVERELL HARRIMAN TRIP
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 9477, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 1/10/1966, 8:40PM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 11377, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 1/20/1967, 12:55PM (Item)
  • POOR SOUND QUALITY; FORTAS IS DIFFICULT TO HEAR; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 11377, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 1/20/1967, 12:55PM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 7685, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 5/14/1965, 8:45PM (Item)
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 7685, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 5/14/1965, 8:45PM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 7688, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 5/14/1965, 8:45PM (Item)
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 7688, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 5/14/1965, 8:45PM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 7689, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 5/14/1965, 8:45PM (Item)
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 7689, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 5/14/1965, 8:45PM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 7690, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 5/14/1965, 8:45PM (Item)
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 7690, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 5/14/1965, 8:45PM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 132, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 11/29/1963, 1:15PM (Item)
  • "(TRANSCRIBED)"; OFFICE SECRETARY ASKS TELEPHONE OPERATOR TO PLACE CALL TO FORTAS; 1:30 ELAPSES BEFORE FORTAS IS CONNECTED; POOR SOUND QUALITY; LBJ SPEAKS TO "MAC" DURING CALL; DIARY INDICATES LBJ IS MEETING WITH MCGEORGE BUNDY; PREVIOUSLY OPENED 11
  • LBJ ASKS ABOUT FORTAS' PROGRESS ON PROPOSED COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE JFK ASSASSINATION; FORTAS SAYS NICHOLAS KATZENBACH AND SOLICITOR GENERAL WILL TALK TO EARL WARREN; POSSIBLE APPOINTEES; LBJ'S AUTHORITY TO APPOINT COMMISSION; HALE BOGGS' REMARKS
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 132, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 11/29/1963, 1:15PM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 10654, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 8/29/1966, 9:30AM (Item)
  • LADY BIRD JOHNSON, MARIE FEHMER, GEORGE CHRISTIAN ARE MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CONFERENCE CALL; ABE FORTAS TALKS TO JUANITA ROBERTS WHO IS IN OFFICE WITH HIM BUT ROBERTS IS NOT AUDIBLE; CONVERSATION CONTINUES ON NEXT 3 RECORDINGS
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 10654, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 8/29/1966, 9:30AM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 10655, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 8/29/1966, 9:30AM (Item)
  • LADY BIRD JOHNSON, MARIE FEHMER, GEORGE CHRISTIAN ARE MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CONFERENCE CALL; ABE FORTAS TALKS TO DOROTHY TERRITO WHO IS IN OFFICE WITH HIM BUT TERRITO IS NOT AUDIBLE; CONVERSATION CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS RECORDING AND ON NEXT
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 10655, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 8/29/1966, 9:30AM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 10656, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 8/29/1966, 9:30AM (Item)
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 10656, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 8/29/1966, 9:30AM
  • ABE FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 10657, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 8/29/1966, 9:30AM (Item)
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
  • Telephone conversation # 10657, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 8/29/1966, 9:30AM
  • ABE 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 # 13413, sound recording, LBJ and RAMSEY CLARK, 9/12/1968, 5:16PM (Item)
  • "ALL THE REST OF 2 BELTS-FORTAS MATTER, SEN. HEARINGS"; "ATTY. GEN. RAMSEY CLARK SEN. RUSSELL LONG" WRITTEN ON DICTABELT; "TRANSCRIBED YB" WRITTEN ON ENVELOPE CONTAINING DICTABELT; CONTINUES ON NEXT RECORDING
  • ABE FORTAS' CONFIRMATION HEARINGS; QUESTION OF LBJ INVOKING EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE; EVERETT DIRKSEN'S LAGGING SUPPORT FOR FORTAS; APPOINTMENT OF UNNAMED ACADEMIC TO DOJ ANTITRUST JOB; EDWIN WEISL, JR.; LBJ TEASES CLARK ABOUT WALKING TO WORK; CLARK'S
Telephone conversation # 5885, sound recording, LBJ and MILDRED STEGALL, 10/14/1964, 9:36PM (Item)
  • ABE FORTAS
  • "NYC"; POOR SOUND QUALITY; FORTAS AND CLIFFORD ARE MEETING WITH STEGALL, WEISL WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CALL; CONTINUES ON NEXT RECORDING
  • WALTER JENKINS' ARREST ON MORALS CHARGE; FORTAS REPORTS ON HIS MEETING WITH JENKINS; CLIFFORD REPORTS ON TRUMAN'S STATEMENT TONIGHT PRAISING LBJ; CLIFFORD DISCUSSES PROPOSED WH STATEMENT ABOUT JENKINS' RESIGNATION WITH LBJ, WEISL; JENKINS' 1959
  • Fortas, Abe, 1910-1982
Telephone conversation # 13009, sound recording, LBJ and CLARK CLIFFORD, 5/7/1968, 5:08PM? (Item)
  • LEGAL BASIS FOR COMMUNICATIONS, TRANSPORTATION, MEDICAL, SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION, OTHER FEDERAL SERVICES FOR FORMER PRESIDENTS; CLIFFORD'S CONCERNS ABOUT GETTING LEGISLATION ON THE MATTER; ABE FORTAS' ADVICE; DILLON COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
Telephone conversation # 13813, sound recording, LBJ and SHELDON COHEN, 12/17/1968, 3:52PM (Item)
  • CONTINUED DISCUSSION OF NEW IRS RULING (ON DEFERRED STOCK COMPENSATION) AND LBJ'S OBJECTIONS TO PROMULGATION OF NEW RULES IN LAST DAYS OF HIS ADMINISTRATION; SENATE'S FAILURE TO CONFIRM ABE FORTAS AS SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE
Telephone conversation # 10652, sound recording, LBJ and JUANITA ROBERTS, 8/29/1966, 8:39AM (Item)
  • "8/29 MJDR/PRES/MRS. J" AND "MJDR/FORTAS" WRITTEN ON ORIGINAL DICTABELT; LADY BIRD JOHNSON IS MEETING WITH LBJ AND JUANITA ROBERTS IS MEETING WITH DOROTHY TERRITO AT WH AT TIME OF CALL; TIME FROM DAILY DIARY; THIS BELT RECORDED AT WH; POOR SOUND
  • TERRITO, ROBERTS DESCRIBE CATHOLIC MISSAL ON WHICH LBJ TOOK OATH OF OFFICE FOLLOWING JFK ASSASSINATION; DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MISSAL AND BIBLE; PRESS STORY THAT MISSAL WAS KENNEDY FAMILY BIBLE; LBJ REQUESTS ABE FORTAS LOOK AT MISSAL
Telephone conversation # 5886, sound recording, LBJ and CLARK CLIFFORD, 10/14/1964, 9:36PM (Item)
  • "NYC"; POOR SOUND QUALITY; CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS RECORDING WHICH INITIATES AS CALL TO STEGALL WHO IS MEETING WITH ABE FORTAS, CLARK CLIFFORD AT TIME; WEISL IS WITH LBJ; STEGALL DOES NOT SPEAK ON THIS RECORDING
Telephone conversation # 13207, sound recording, LBJ and LEONARD MARKS, 7/13/1968, 10:25AM (Item)
  • MARKS REPORTS ON TALK WITH "DREW" (PEARSON) ABOUT JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS FOR DAVID BRESS, HOMER THORNBERRY, ABE FORTAS; FCC RULINGS; AT&T INVOLVEMENT IN MARYLAND SENATE RACE; PHOTOS OF LBJ IN US EMBASSIES; USIA DISTRIBUTION OF BOOKS; PRESS REVIEWS
Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)
  • most of the Great Society speech, I think, didn't he? M: Umhrn. C: Clark Clifford contributed greatly. Abe Forrest [Fortas?] contributed a lot to what he was saymg. He always, when he made a speech, if it was a reasonably important speech he LBJ