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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? And I think he always regarded the ABA as kind of a stuffy organization. I am dimly beginning to remember actually a meeting with the ABA Judicial Selection Committee or the ABA president, somebody which may have come during the [Abe] Fortas-- G: He
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . . . . And then in the afternoon at three o'clock he's got [Abe] Fortas and [Clark] Clifford in the office with him. They're going over the State of the Union. He wouldn't let anybody in. Then he starts this whole series of calls to me and Valenti. G: Making further changes? C
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • if he called himself. It may not be logged in. C: God. [Abe] Fortas is really all over this. Okay. In any case, let's get on with this. G: You think this is about April 4, 1966? C: I think this happened on April 4. Well, I just, maybe I'm wrong
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 2 (II), 2/18/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Folder, "Celler, Emanuel (Cong) [2 of 2]," Name Files, WHCF, Box C-151 (Item)
  • on. Allen J. oater F. EZEKIEL, Mordecai FARRINGTON, C&rl C. ~u.t-M,, ....ER, FINN, William G. CLEMING, John R. FORTAS, Hon. Abe GARST, Roswell GATHINGS, Hon. E.C. GAUMNIT'l, Edwin W. GLICK, Philip M. GOODLOE, John HALLECK, Hon. Charles A. HAYDEN, Hon
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . And the idea was not to pinpoint this one box, but to break the entire election down and just see who won it and who lost it. And they were unwilling to do that." And he said, "At four in the afternoon, Abe ----------,------------LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and got an apartment in a hotel, and went-to work at Arnold, Fortas, and Porter with the understanding that I could campaign. Of course, Abe Fortas supported Lyndon Johnson, but the fi rm had a ra.ther wide acceptance of political views, and really
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 13, August, 1965 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 4 (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 4 (IV), 6/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • app are nt. The newspapers in o ther countries make g reat to-do ab out the Presid e n t's security . I've got a picture tak en in Aust ral ia pr inted in a newspaper there. I had a radi o in my hand , and I bent over to tell the President
  • Experiences with Presidential foreign travel; importance of availability of communication; Presidential speeches; LBJ’s foreign relations; White House staff press briefings; Marvin Watson; 75% free hand with the press; Fortas/Thornberry nomination
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 11, June, 1965 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 3 (Item)
Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol 7, Meeting Notes," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 49 (Item)
  • is the basis for selecting the specific units for call-up? be said ab~ut the possibility of calling up additional units? Time What factors How long will the units be needed? How long will the individuals in these units be required to serve? How
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Abe Fortas and Tom Corcoran and Ed Weisl are going to try to get us some contributions, and a lot of absolutely delightful, sarcastic, substantive letters from Jim Rowe especially. G: LBJ seems to have had more support from labor nationally that year
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at our house in those days was likely to have a mixture of, oh, say Stu Symington and Abe Fortas and Don Cook and Senator [Alvin] Wirtz from Texas when he was up, Bill Douglas, the Tom Clarks, the Speaker any time we could get him, Fred Vinson, who
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , I think, we ought to develop. Because, you see, Lyndon Johnson had been in government some thirty-odd years. And he knew from his long contacts with Abe Fortas and with the man Wirtz who was Under Secretary of Interior-M: Alvin Wirtz? C: Alvin
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recommended on particular programs--take into account the budget that he had put before the Congress, and then to fit everything into that. Had I known in advance, had Abe Fortas said at the beginning, or Joe Califano at some stage had told me that "We want
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/14/1968 (Thursday) (Item)
  • LBJ meets with Clark Clifford & Abe Fortas about 1968 election; arrival ceremony for Prime Minister & Mrs. Egal of Somalia; Lady Bird works on Women Doers' Luncheon on child health; LBJ gives speech & awards to Federal Career Women group; Lady Bird
Folder, "Jenkins, Walter - Investigation [2 of 3]," Aides Files of Mildred Stegall, Box 29B (Item)
  • : In accordance with the request of Mr . Abe Fortas , iss Larrie O' Farrel of New York City was interviewed on October 28 , 1964 , by representatives of this Bureau at which time she furnished a signed statement concerning information furnished her by Mr . John
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins and Alice Hopkins, interview 4 (IV), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , through Tommy Corcoran and Abe Fortas and a 11 the people tha t had to do with PWA public works. He and Tom Corcoran became friends very early. To that extent he was in and around the periphery of the White House even as a youngster, even before he
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and then it came up during recess of the Supreme Court. In a very, very rare occasion for a newspaperman, a justice invited about three of us reporters for Texas papers back into his private chambers for a hearing. was Justice Hugo Black. It Abe Fortas, who
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and Clark Clifford and Abe Fortas to accept Walter Jenkins' resignation immediately; I felt that that was not the right tactic--that it would be a little bit too much--it would smack too much of abandoning a man who certainly had been a long, faithful
Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • relationships with Eppie [Ephraim] Evron, who was the Israeli minister, number two in the Israeli embassy. I'm sure it came to President Johnson through Abe Fortas, Arthur and Mathilde Krim, and a number of his personal friends who were leaders in the American
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • this tragedy occurred in Dallas, the President came back here as President--Mr. Johnson. My wife and I and Abe Fortas and his wife were at the Elms where he was then living just after he came back, and I saw the enormous and unique burden he was carrying
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , incidentally, that both [Clark] Clifford and [Abe] Fortas were at that meeting. In any case, I never heard anything more about going to work for the White House until the day that Bill Moyers was announced as press secretary. And I was just reading that over
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Folder, "Beautification Summary - The Committee for a More Beautiful Capital, 1965 - 1968," White House Social Files, Beautification Files, Box 22 (Item)
  • of a president, Mrs. Lasker, and six trustees, Conrad Wirth, Mrs. Abe Fortas, Will P. Rogers, Ralph Becker, and Polly Shackleton. It would serve as a clearing house for gifts for projects which might be more wide­ spread than the Park Service could undertake. Mrs
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1956" (Item)