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Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 F: Did the President discuss with you in any way the appointment of Abe Fortas as Chief Justice? S: He mentioned to me over the phone one Sunday that I recall, tha t he had narrowed his prospects down to Fortas; he was thinking
  • housing; House concurrence on Senate’s open housing bill; April riots; joint session; Fortas nomination; gun control; Commission on Causes and Prevention of Violence; Yarborough’s opposition to his appointment to the Fifth Circuit; D.C. Circuit
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that could be of any help to him at all. see. This was his political strain, you Tex Goldschm.idt worked for the Interior Department, and Mike Strauss, and Abe Fortas. They were all working for Harold Ickes, so they all becalTIe great friends of Lyndon's
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • much on the periphery at that time. F: Did you assist in the preparation of that talk to the joint Houses that he made? V: Yes. I was involved in that. going over it. Some of the work was done at The Elms, Ted Sorensen did the original draft; Abe