The “Johnson Treatment” Abe Fortas, a distinguished lawyer who had argued a major criminal rights case, Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), before the Supreme Court, was a close friend of and adviser to President Johnson. This photograph of the president and Fortas taken in July 1965 illustrates how Johnson used his body as well as his voice to bend people to his will. Yoichi R. Okamoto/LBJ Library Collection.