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Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1943" (Item)

Abe Fortas, new undersecretary of the Interior, was in Austin for a brief visit (a day and a night). LBJ reported on UT war training facilities. 8/24 Late August LBJ speaks in Summerville and visits in Brenham. LBJ attends Austin Bond Rally featuring

President's Daily Diary entry, 6/6/1967 (Item)

resident began his day at (Place) ..— • Tune Telephone t or t ...... Activity LD !. In Out Lo 11:08a f • 11:20a f Justic 11:25a , - (include visited by) Secretary McNamara t Walt e Abe Fortas Rosto w (pl) for this call, the President put

Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 2 (II), 12/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

they wanted. She could take care of that beautifully. She also knew her way around Washington quite well, because she'd been a secretary for Senator Wirtz when he was undersecretary. She also knew Abe Fortas. Fortas was still down, I believe, in the department

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 41 (XLI), 1/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

right. Heller did. I see my memo reflects. Heller is hot to suspend the investment tax credit. I guess the President has me checking with [Abe] Fortas who thinks the investment tax credit should be suspended but doesn't think it's enough. And Fortas

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, [Abe] Fortas, [Alan] Boyd, and the Fahy board, were for one or another kind of compulsory arbitration, ranging from legislating the Fahy panel report into place, to having some presidential board in effect do the same thing. [Clark] Clifford wanted

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

indicated an interest in returning to serve in that go·vernment. F: Indicated to whom? S: I imagine to Abe [Fortas], because I was in his firm. have been the route that it took. F: At any rate, you Ire back now. in? So that may I just don't know

Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

ever hear LBJ talk about Justice [Abe] Fortas' resignation, that case? W: No. G: Do you, Mr. Winters, ever recall when Abe Fortas resigned from the Supreme Court? Never heard him talk about that? MW: No. G: I have a note here that you witnessed

Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

; International Atomic Energy Agency; Arthur Goldberg; Vasili V. Kuznetsoz; Nikolai T. Federenko; Mendelevich; Archie Alexander; Dr. Edward Teller; Article 6; Abe Fortas; Congressman Frances Bolton; Ambassador Llewelyn Thompson; Harold Brown; Frederick Charles

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, Lucius D. Battle, interview 3 (III), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Ambassador Battle's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Let me begin by saying I found it intriguing that in your first oral history interview with us you mentioned your close relationship with Dean Acheson, Abe Fortas
Battle's relationships with Dean Acheson, Abe Fortas, and William Fulbright; John Badeau; foreign relations between the United States and Egypt, especially regarding PL 480 and wheat; Gamal Abdel Nasser's speeches regarding Egypt's relations

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

people that day, but at least I was one of them. And I said I was coming to Washington, and he said, "Why don't you come for dinner Sunday night?" And I did. F: At The Elms? L: At The Elms. Abe Fortas was there, and the child of the governor

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

why, but they sit with a finger on power. G: After Nixon's election, and I gather even before, when he saw that the [Abe] Fortas nomination was in trouble, he thought about naming someone else chief justice, and one of the people under consideration
with the Soviets; Abe Fortas' nomination as Supreme Court chief justice; the bombing halt in October 1968 and subsequent failed negotiations with the North Vietnamese; Averell Harriman and Cyrus Vance as negotiators; LBJ's inability to get what he wanted from

Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, was in Washington, and he visited the law firm of Arnold, Fortas and Porter, and Abe Fortas took him down--they had a sort of a hospitality room in the basement of the law office--and asked Ed Harte, "Ed, do you know a fellow named George Parr down in South Texas

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

President's Daily Diary entry, 2/6/1967 (Item)

Ab e Forta s a t 12:25p h h e read ; " I thin k your Crim e Messag e i s excellent . " m Date Februar y 6 , 196 7 White House , Wash , D C Da y MONDA Y . Expendi e Code Activity (includ e visite d by ) tur Today - sen t th e Congres s - MESSAG

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 3 (III), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, we're ruined" reaction? V: Oh, no, nothing about that at all. calls. I Then he placed several other phone know one was to Abe Fortas to get his judgment about this. And then he talked to Mrs. Johnson. Then at some point, I don't know to whom

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

guess, so he had a group of old friends. They were men like Abe Fortas, Tommy Corcoran, Jim Rowe, and then friends up in the House and Senate, and at no time was our relationship anything like as close at those. It had just come about, really

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

community had a particular interest. That was about the extent of it. I don't recall the Abe Fortas nomination becoming a pre-eminent issue. From our polls and I believe reflected in Gallup and Harris, there seemed to be two overriding issues: Vietnam
of nuclear arms; Abe Fortas' nomination as Supreme Court chief justice; the effect of George Wallace's candidacy on both Nixon and Humphrey; voting results in New Jersey and Illinois; the effect of polling and publicizing poll results; poll accuracy; Ohio

Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Especially you would hear this when he thought that I was taking too long on getting something through the department: "Now, if it had been Abe Fortas he'd have had that through the department two weeks ago and been working on something else. You're still

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

These personal characteristics held him And I think this led him to lean on people who would butter him up, or in any case would be lacking in complete candor, or would put him into things when he should have stayed out of them. I think the story of Abe Fortas
Ky; Robert Komer; Tex Goldschmidt; Nguyen Van Thieu; RMN; Khrushchev; Max Milliken; William Westmoreland; William Gaud; Henry Kissinger; Phil LaFollette; Mike Monroney; Abe Fortas; Harold Ickes.

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

Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 2 (II), 7/9/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Bob Murphy and Abe Fortas. Abe was always [remainder of sentence inaudible]. This time, I think there was more briefing, a little more systematic briefing. We came down the night before. We had dinner with Rusk, and I think Bob McNamara

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

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/13/1967 (Thursday) (Item)

e d R e s t o n w e s a w a l i t t l e b o y on h is b i c y c l e w h is tlin g m e r r i l y alo n g an d a dog ru n n in g b e h in d h i m . Abe a n d I t u r n e d fi. i s i m u l t a n e o u s l y w i t h a n a l m o s t a c u s i n g s m
Lady Bird & Marilyn Walz swim; Lady Bird to Jean Louis' for hairstyle; Lady Bird & Abe Fortas have lunch & then go to Reston, VA, to see example of city planning; Lady Bird describes neighborhoods, shopping and business in the development; Lady Bird

Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: No, that was one of the imitations that they gave. What he did--he set this up entirely with Abe Fortas. That has to [be] stated in order to understand what happened. 18 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

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, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

angle to get into the White House. was between Pan Am and American. The big fight I remember There was something about Braniff I know, but I can't remember what it was. Was Abe [Fortas] counsel? No, he was not, he was in the government then. I

Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

; we are fighting it in Delaware, and it was a big deal. went to the Supreme Court. There's Finally parts of it My client and I, because we were going to be up in Delaware, couldn't fight them all here. The fight was all over. We hired Abe Fortas

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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

President's Daily Diary entry, 6/5/1967 (Item)

the conversatio n by askin g i f he wer e watching th e CB S Special. Th e Presiden t the n sai d h e though t tha t Da n Rathe r rathe r mea n i n his comment s o n the program . d been 10:30p Th e Whit e Hous e Day t to hi s roo m fo r a ru b e Ab e Forta s

Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, in effect, was conducting a vendetta against the appointment of Abe Fortas as chief justice? K: Well, I think vendetta is such a difficult, strong word to use. I think he can be harsh in his judgments of people and personalities. F: Are you talking about

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

much so, because on the one hand Clark Clifford and Abe Fortas, prior to Clifford coming into the cabinet, were really the hawks on Vietnam and were giving him advice that would be in a hawkish position. I didn't see Clifford really backtracking

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1960" (Item)

. elections. 5/17 LBJ is in consultation today with a number of people about a proposed wire to Khrushchev from him, the Speaker, Fulbright and Stevenson. LBJ meets with John Connally, Abe Fortas and Justice Douglas at 10:35; has phone conversations with Pat

Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-- I -- 10 ran that column for about a year and then he began to quit. began to quit him is what happened. The papers Then he began doing some writing, special articles and things. Now rather interesting, Abe Fortas was under secretary under Ickes

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1948" (Item)

Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, this was a denial and a defense. The only other thing I remember of any importance at that point was the hearing before Hugo Black. his lawyer. [Abe] Fortas was I had known Black in the Senate very well, and there LBJ Presidential Library http

Folder, "March 26, 1968 - 1:15 p.m. Foreign Policy Advisors Luncheon - regulars plus added group - Vietnam," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

George Christian Cyrus Vance Douglas Dillon General Omar Bradley Averill Harriman Dean Acheson Henry Cabot Lodge The President The Vice President Secretary Rusk Secretary Clifford Ambassador Goldberg Justice Fortas General Earle Wheeler General Maxwell

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