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Title: Telegram from Robert F. Kennedy to Jack Brooks, March 16, 1968
Identifier: camh-dob-001608
Creator: Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Democratic party (U.S.), Political Campaigns
Dates: 1968-03-16
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Senator Robert F. Kennedy telegrams Jack Brooks to announce his decision to run for the Democratic presidential nomination. He states that he is not running in opposition of any person already running, specifically describing himself as running "in harmony" with Eugene McCarthy.

Title: Telegram statement by Jack Brooks, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-001365
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Democratic party (U.S.), Political Campaigns
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Statement sent by telegram to local media in the Second Congressional District. Jack Brooks calls for Democrats to unify behind their candidate for the Senate. Telegram is undated, but may have been sent in 1961 after the special election to fill Lyndon Johnson's seat upon his election as Vice President.

Title: Texas Monthly article, October 1976
Identifier: camh-dob-001215
Creator: Shapiro, Walter
Topic: United States. Congress. House, Political Campaigns
Dates: 1976-10
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: An article about Congresswoman Barbara Jordan in Texas Monthly magazine, covering her work as a Democratic Representative from Texas. Shapiro writes that Jordan has "skillfully managed to bridge the gulf" between electoral and legislative politics. Although Jack Brooks provided Walter Shapiro with a statement for this article about Jordan [camh-dob-001214], Shapiro did not quote Brooks's statement in his article. Brooks is mentioned in the article in reference to the Nixon impeachment proceedings: "Judiciary chairman Peter Rodino, carefully working his way through the impeachment proceedings, came to rely increasingly on two Texas congressmen for political advice: Jack Brooks, because he was highly partisan, and Barbara Jordan, because she wasn't." Shapiro also writes, "When crusty Beaumont Congressman Jack Brooks, variously described as the meanest and/or the crudest man in Congress, starts telling locker room stories at Judiciary sessions, Barbara Jordan laughs appreciatively along with the men."

Title: Typewritten notes for Jack Brooks's statement congratulating Nick Lampson on his 1996 election to represent the 9th District of Texas, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-000986
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Contributor: Lampson, Nicholas Valentino, 1945-
Topic: Political Campaigns, Democratic party (U.S.)
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks congratulating Nick Lampson and the voters on Lampson's 1996 election beating Steve Stockman and expressing best wishes to Lampson and his wife, Susan.