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Title: Letter from Jack Brooks to the Mayor of League City, March 25, 1976
Identifier: camh-dob-001957
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Revenue sharing
Dates: 1976-03-25
Box: 2007-255/370
Folder: 301.2
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks responds to the Mayor of League City, Johnnie Arolfo. He discusses his perspective on legislation regarding the suspension of the revenue sharing program. The legislation was being considered within the Government Operations Committee, which Brooks was chairman of. League City was part of Brooks's district.

Title: Letter from Jack Brooks to William L. Dawson, November 6, 1962
Identifier: camh-dob-001080
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Contributor: Dawson, William L. (William Levi), 1886-1970
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Dates: 1962-11-06
Box: 2007-255/92
Folder: 77.8
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Jack Brooks to Congressman William L. Dawson wishing him well during a hospital stay.

Title: Letter from John Buchanan, Jr. to Jack Brooks, March 27, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-002093
Creator: Buchanan, John H. (John Hall), 1928-
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1974-03-27
Box: 2007-255/293
Folder: GA-7-1-3 SC-KB Report - Press Statements re Proposed Report Approved
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A letter from Congressman John Buchanan, Jr. asserting that the report on federal spending on President Richard Nixon's private homes included material from individuals who did not appear as witnesses during the Government Affairs Subcommittee's hearings on the matter. Buchanan was a member of the subcommittee.

Title: Letter from Sam Rayburn to Jack Brooks, October 26, 1956
Identifier: camh-dob-001578
Creator: Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Republican party (U.S. : 1854-), United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Dates: 1956-10-26
Box: 2007-255/43
Folder: White House Correspondence & VIP, 1950-1968
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Sam Rayburn informing Brooks that he received complaints from Republican members of his Government Operations subcommittee.

Title: Letter from Ted Kennedy to Jack Brooks, October 24, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-002056
Creator: Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1973-11-24
Box: 2007-255/282
Folder: 246.3
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Senator Ted Kennedy thanks Jack Brooks for investigating the use of presidential funds at private properties.

Title: Letter from the city manager of Beaumont to the mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, March 17, 1976
Identifier: camh-dob-001961
Topic: Revenue sharing, United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Dates: 1976-03-17
Box: 2007-255/370
Folder: 301.2
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The Acting City Manager of Beaumont, Howard McDaniel, writes to Hanz Tanzler, the Mayor of Jacksonville regarding the comments that Tanzler made about Jack Brooks during the National League of Cities - U.S. Conference of Mayors Congressional City Conference. Tanzler made disparaging comments regarding Brooks's support for the suspension of the revenue sharing program. Legislation to suspend the program was being considered within the Government Operations Committee, which Brooks was chairman of. Beaumont was part of Brooks's district.

Title: Letter from the mayor of Jacksonville, Florida to the city manager of Beaumont, March 25, 1976
Identifier: camh-dob-001962
Topic: Revenue sharing, United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Dates: 1976-03-25
Box: 2007-255/370
Folder: 301.2
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Hanz Tanzler, the Mayor of Jacksonville responds to the Acting City Manager of Beaumont, Howard McDaniel, regarding the comments that Tanzler made about Jack Brooks during the National League of Cities - U.S. Conference of Mayors Congressional City Conference. Tanzler made disparaging comments regarding Brooks's support for the suspension of the revenue sharing program. Legislation to suspend the program was being considered within the Government Operations Committee, which Brooks was chairman of. Beaumont was part of Brooks's district.

Title: Letter from the Mayor of League City to Jack Brooks, March 10, 1976
Identifier: camh-dob-001958
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Revenue sharing
Dates: 1976-03-10
Box: 2007-255/370
Folder: 301.2
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The Mayor of League City, Johnnie Arolfo, writes to Jack Brooks in order to request the continuation of the revenue sharing program, which gave local and state governments funding from taxes collected by the federal government. Legislation regarding the suspension of the revenue sharing program was being considered within the Government Operations Committee, which Brooks was chairman of. League City was part of Brooks's district.

Title: Letter from William L. Dawson to Jack Brooks, November 20, 1962
Identifier: camh-dob-001079
Creator: Dawson, William L. (William Levi), 1886-1970
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Dates: 1962-11-20
Box: 2007-255/92
Folder: 77.8
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Congressman William L. Dawson, Chairman of the House Committee on Government Operations to Jack Brooks thanking him for his letter wishing him well during a hospital stay. Brooks was a ranking member of the committee and chaired his own subcommittee.

Title: Memorandum from Bill Jones to Jack Brooks, Re: Presidential Properties Investigation, September 13, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-002099
Creator: Jones, Bill
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1973-09-13
Box: 2007-255/293
Folder: GA-7-1-3 SC-KB Report - Press Statements re Proposed Report Approved
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Memo from Bill Jones laying out work still to be done before hearings on the investigation into federal spending on President Richard Nixon's private homes begins.

Title: Memorandum to Subcommittee on Legislation and National Security from Jack Brooks, June 23, 1976
Identifier: camh-dob-001966
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Electronic data processing, United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Dates: 1976-06-23
Box: 2007-255/370
Folder: 301.6
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks informs the members of the Subcommittee on Legislation and National Security within the Government Operations Committee that three days of hearings have been scheduled in order to review the procurement of automatic data processing (ADP) resources by the federal government.

Title: Missed call message, February 22, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001733
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1974-02-22
Box: 2007-255/302
Folder: 254.22
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Office note indicating a request from Craig Hines, a reporter, for a statement from Jack Brooks on President Richard Nixon's justification for using public funds to upgrade his residence in San Clemente, CA.

Title: News clipping and political cartoon, March 1, 1976
Identifier: camh-dob-001952
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Dates: 1976-03-01
Box: 2007-255/370
Folder: 301.2
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A newsclipping discussing Jack Brooks's chairmanship of the Government Operations Committee and his opposition to revenue sharing accompanied by a political cartoon depicting Brooks as a gun-toting cowboy shooting a snake labeled "General Revenue Sharing."

Title: News release, April 26, 1966
Identifier: camh-dob-002064
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Aircraft accidents
Dates: 1966-04-26
Box: 2007-255/144
Folder: Government Operations
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: News release announcing the beginning of hearings on air safety held by the Government Activities Subcommittee of the Government Operations Committee. Jack Brooks chaired the subcommittee.

Title: News release, August 31, 1965
Identifier: camh-dob-002072
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
Dates: 1965-08-31
Box: 2007-255/132
Folder: Legis: Government Operations (Billie Sol Estes)
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: News release announcing the Government Operations Committee's unanimous endorsement of the proposal to build the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. Jack Brooks introduced a joint resolution to grant the committee's approval to the project and send the vote to the House floor. The LBJ Presidential Library opened May 22, 1971.

Title: News release, February 18, 1975
Identifier: camh-dob-001928
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Legislation
Dates: 1975-02-18
Box: 2007-255/346
Folder: 282.11
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A news release from Jack Brooks, Chairman of the Government Operations Committee, regarding legislation introduced to address the impact of inflation on government travel allowances.

Title: News release, February 4, 1975
Identifier: camh-dob-001933
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Legislation
Dates: 1975-02-04
Box: 2007-255/346
Folder: 282.11
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A news release announcing that the House Government Operations Committee, chaired by Jack Brooks, unanimously passed a bill to increase the per diem and mileage allowances for government employees traveling on official business after there had not been an increase since 1969.

Title: News release from Jack Brooks, December 8, 1969
Identifier: camh-dob-001586
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, United States. Federal Aviation Administration
Dates: 1969-12-08
Box: 2007-255/188
Folder: Govt. Activities 1969
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: News release announcing Government Activities Subcommittee hearings regarding delays in building air traffic control systems and the FAA. The Government Activities subcommittee was within the Government Operations Committee and chaired by Brooks.

Title: News Release from Jack Brooks, May 14, 1969
Identifier: camh-dob-001587
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Legislation
Dates: 1969-05-14
Box: 2007-255/188
Folder: Govt. Activities 1969
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: News release announcing the Government Operations committee's approval of Jack Brooks's legislation to use computers in Congress.

Title: News release from the General Services Administration, October 7, 1975
Identifier: camh-dob-001949
Creator: Sampson, Arthur F., 1926-
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Dates: 1975-10-07
Box: 2007-255/346
Folder: 282.14
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A copy of a news release issued by the General Services Administration regarding Administrator Arthur Sampson's appearance before the Government Operations Committee. Jack Brooks included this copy in correspondence with John P. Sensenig of the Pennsylvania Governor's D.C. office.

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