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"However, [Fortas] did not have the votes in any case."
This is far from established fact, despite repeated utterances in the right wing echo chamber.
Neocons should take the following quote with a grain of salt, but according to
this radical left-wing web site:
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...[President] Johnson concluded that despite filibuster warnings he just barely had the support to confirm Fortas.
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It's unclear how a vote would have gone down.
As an aside, why wouldn't Senate Republicans just have allowed a vote to take place if it was somehow self-evident Fortas wouldn't have been approved?
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I admit that I am not a scholar on this particular subject, but it seems to me that you took a quote totally out of context. In the article it seems like Johnson thought he had the votes, until the scandals broke out, at which point he lost them. Had he had another term, he might have been able to push him through, but he did not, thankfully.