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LBJ and the Fortas Nomination for Chief Justice
John Massaro draws upon previously unpublished source material from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library to examine the nomination of Abe Fortas for Chief Justice. Massaro attributes the Senate's refusal to confirm Fortas to mismanagement of that nomination by President Johnson.
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