Word: abe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
What Do You Care? Not an easy man to work with, Johnson at first found it hard to recruit top men for government. But his recent appointments-Arthur Goldberg to the U.N., Thurgood Marshall as Solicitor General, John Gardner as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and Abe Fortas to the Supreme Court-have not only been topnotch, but should make it possible for him to get almost anyone he wants in the future...
Last week the politician of that pair, Lyndon Johnson, put the presidential seal on the friendship of 30 years by naming the lawyer, Abe Fortas, as his first appointee to the U.S. Supreme Court...
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...