Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depth and importance of the friendship was shown in another way last October. When Walter Jenkins, President Johnson's longtime friend and aide, was arrested on a morals charge. it was to Fortas that Jenkins first turned for help. Fortas, along with Fellow Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford, then tried to get Washington newspaper editors to hold off breaking the story of Jenkins' arrest...
...heady early days of Franklin Roosevelt's Administration, two young Southern liberals came together in Washington and discovered the first bond of friendship. One went on to carve out a brilliant career in politics; the other rose to the top of the legal profession and successfully argued two landmark cases in U.S, criminal...
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...
...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...
...special interest in civil liberties. His approach can be expected to differ only in degree from that of Arthur Goldberg, whose seat-the so-called Jewish seat-he takes on the court. But Fortas will bring with him to the bench a special problem. His long and intimate friendship with the President and his handling of some of the more difficult episodes in the Johnson catalogue will be constantly remembered. That means that both political and nonpolitical eyes will carefully scrutinize his every move on the bench...