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Title: Additional Views of Congressman Jack Brooks, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-001850
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Impeachment, Watergate Affair (1972-1974)
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Statement laying out Jack Brooks's views on President Richard Nixon's impeachment and the alleged crimes committed.

Title: Address by Joseph A. Califano, Jr. before the Harvard Law School Association of the District of Columbia at the Washington Hotel, January 17, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001145
Creator: Califano, Joseph A., 1931-
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), Impeachment
Dates: 1974-01-17
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Joseph Califano was a former aid to President Lyndon Johnson and powerful Washington lawyer. His speech, titled "On the Impeachable Offenses of Richard Nixon." Califano disimisses the argument that Nixon was simply misled by his advisors. "Reasonable men," Califono said, "may doubt [Nixon's] advance involvement in the DNC Watergate bugging and burglary; they must recognize that he would have been unworthy of his political success if he were not deeply involved in everything that folllowed the capture of the burglars on June 17, 1972." He also lays out a constitutional and statutory basis for impeaching the president.

Title: Annotated speech excerpts, July 24, 1974-July 30, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-002100
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Impeachment
Dates: 1974-07-30
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Speech urging the House Judiciary Committee pass Articles of Impeachment out of committee. The speeches are snippets of colloquy that Jack Brooks delivered during the hearings, most falling on Tuesday, July 29th. Brooks's focus in these speeches is on the charges of tax fraud against President Richard Nixon, and his personal efforts to induce the IRS to institute audits and investigations against his political enemies.

Title: Brooks statement, Judiciary Committee, July 29, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001834
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Impeachment, United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1974-07-29
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Statement made by Jack Brooks regarding impeachment and the impacts of President Richard Nixon's offenses on the nation.

Title: Brooks statement, Judiciary Committee, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-001838
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Impeachment, United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Statement made by Jack Brooks during Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings regarding President Richard Nixon's use of the Internal Revenue Service as a political tool.

Title: Chairman statement second day, October 11, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-001995
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1973-10-11
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Statement delivered by Jack Brooks during Arthur Sampson, Administrator of the Government Services Administration's, appearance before the Government Activities Subcommittee hearing as it investigated federal spending on President Richard Nixon's private homes.

Title: Closing statement of Congressman Jack Brooks ending hearings on increased efficiency and effectiveness in the management and use of data processing techniques, July 20, 1967
Identifier: camh-dob-002185
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Electronic data processing
Dates: 1967-07-20
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Closing statement delivered by Jack Brooks, chairman of the Government Activities Subcommittee, on the progress made in his subcommittee's hearings on electronic data processing.

Title: Draft opening statement of Jack Brooks, Impeachment Hearing, July 24, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-002422
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1974-07-24
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Draft of Jack Brooks's opening statement during impeachment hearings in the Judiciary Committee.

Title: Draft, remarks of Congressman Jack Brooks on the Ford confirmation, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-001856
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States. Congress. House, United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Draft remarks by Jack Brooks on his vote to approve Gerald Ford's nomination as Vice President.

Title: Draft statement, August 1, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-002049
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1973-08-01
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Draft statement juxtaposing President Richard Nixon's use of federal funds on his private homes with the difficulty average Americans faced in owning their homes.

Title: The Huntington air crash - a tragic consequence of false economy, extension of remarks of Hon. Jack Brooks of Texas in the House of Representatives, November 16, 1970
Identifier: camh-dob-002195
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Aircraft accidents
Dates: 1970-11-16
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Remarks by Jack Brooks regarding the plane crash in Huntington, West Virginia that took the lives of the Marshall University football team two days earlier. Brooks warns that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has not moved quickly enough to install safety equipment at the nation's airports. The Government Activities Subcommittee, of which Brooks was the chairman, engaged in extensive investigations of the FAA.

Title: Jack Brooks remarks to Gerald Ford, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-001857
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Contributor: Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006
Topic: United States. Congress. House, United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Copy of remarks responding to Gerald Ford's answers to Brooks'ss 52 questions.

Title: Jack Brooks statement, Judiciary Committee, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-001835
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Impeachment, United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Longer version of statement found in camh-dob-001834 regarding impeachment and President Richard Nixon's offenses.

Title: JB's comments, December 18, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-002170
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1973-12-18
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Copy of a statement made by Jack Brooks in response to the release of the Government Accountability Office's audit of federal spending on the private property of Presidents of the United States.

Title: Misuse of IRS, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-001837
Topic: Impeachment, United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Typewritten statement with some edits regarding President Richard Nixon's misues of the Internal Revenue Service.

Title: Opening Statement by Max M. Kampelman, October 12, 1967
Identifier: camh-dob-002067
Creator: Kampelman, Max M., 1920-2013
Topic: Light bulbs, United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Dates: 1967-10-12
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Carbon copy of the opening statement made by Max Kampelman, the moderator of Washington Week in Review, regarding Jack Brooks's lightbulb investigation in his Government Activities Subcommittee hearings.

Title: Opening statement of Congressman Jack Brooks at hearing on "Problems Confronting FAA in the Development of an Air Traffic Control System for the 1970's," Tuesday, January 27, 1960
Identifier: camh-dob-002197
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Aircraft accidents
Dates: 1960-01-26
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Opening statement delivered by Jack Brooks during a hearing highlighting safety issues in air travel and the need for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to develop an air traffic control system that could handle the increase in air traffic.

Title: Opening Statement of Congressman Jack Brooks, hearing on expenditure of federal funds in support of Presidential properties (second day), October 11, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-001994
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1973-10-11
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Opening statement delivered by Jack Brooks on the second day of hearings investigating the expenditure of federal funds on President Richard Nixon's private homes.

Title: Outline of remarks of Congressman Jack Brooks, association of federal investigators luncheon, Thursday, May 21, 1964
Identifier: camh-dob-002366
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1964-05-21
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A typed copy of a speech delivered by Jack Brooks that details his approach to investigations. The document includes some handwritten emendations and underlinings.

Title: Proposed statement - burden of proof for impeachment proceedings in the House, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-001852
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Impeachment, United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Statement from Jack Brooks to the House Judiciary Committee on the question of whether impeachment needs to meet the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. He argues that it does not.

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