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...witness at the Abe Fortas nomination hearing [Aug. 13], I did not make the charge you attributed to me that Mr. Fortas had withheld from Senate investigators information about a Communist at the State Department. I stated, among other points, that Fortas had "deliberately withheld pertinent data of a Communist source," and I supplied the Senate with documentation of this allegation...
...Confirmed, in the Senate, the nomination of Abe Fortas, 55, to the Supreme Court (three votes against), John W. Gardner, 52, as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (unanimous), and Thurgood Marshall, 57, as U.S. Solicitor General (unanimous...
Senate confirmation hearings ordinarily are fairly perfunctory. Not so last week when Abe Fortas, the President's first Supreme Court appointee, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee. During a two-hour hearing, he answered questions on a score of subjects, replied to some half-baked accusations...
There is even a family side to Abe...
...Friendship. The sinews of friendship between Abe Fortas and Lyndon Johnson are about as deep and strong as possible. In 1948, when Johnson's election to the U.S. Senate was challenged, it was Fortas who acted as his counsel and held the seat despite charges that the 87 votes by which Johnson won the primary were stolen from the opposition. When Johnson became President, one of the first men he called to his side was Fortas. The new President consulted Fortas on appointments, departmental problems, national and international policy, and the creation of the Warren Commission to investigate...