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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: Answers to charges concerning the President's personal finances, December 8, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-000948
Creator: Ziegler, Ronald L. (Ronald Louis), 1939-2003
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), Financial statements--analysis
Dates: 1973-12-08
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A detailed set of answers released by White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler in response to various allegations regarding President RIchard Nixon's finances.

Title: Gift of "La Casa Pacifica", December 8, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-000953
Creator: Ziegler, Ronald L. (Ronald Louis), 1939-2003
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1973-12-08
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A statement released by White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler announcing that after the deaths of President Richard Nixon and First Lady Patricia Nixon, the Nixons' personal home and property in San Clemente, California will be given to the people of the United States.

Title: Handwritten notes related to the Watergate investigation, April 30, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001016
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1974-04-30
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Handwritten notes, presumably by Congressman Brooks, related to the White House's release of tape transcripts on April 30, 1974 for the Watergate investigation. Notes include short quotes, summary of events, and dates. The House Judiciary Committee demanded that the actual tapes be turned over, instead.

Title: House of Representatives report of proceedings: hearing held before the Committee on the Judiciary re: Impeachment Inquiry, July 23, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001146
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1974-07-23
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Stenographic meeting minutes of Judiciary Committee hearing to consider a resolution to set terms for general House debate and passage of articles of impeachment against President Nixon. Brooks argued against the resolution's piece-meal approach to the individual articles.

Title: Information from the 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1972 federal income tax returns of Richard M. Nixon and Patricia R. Nixon, December 8, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-000951
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), Financial statements--analysis
Dates: 1973-12-08
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A set of detailed financial statements, released by the office of White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler, regarding President Richard Nixon and First Lady Patricia Nixon's tax returns.

Title: Letter from Coopers & Lybrand, CPAs, to Richard and Patricia Nixon, August 20, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-000945
Creator: Coopers & Lybrand
Contributor: Nixon, Richard M. Richard Milhous, 1913-1994, Nixon, Pat, 1912-1993
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), Financial statements--analysis
Dates: 1973-08-20
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A copy of a letter from Coopers & Lybrand, the accounting firm hired by President Richard Nixon to audit the Nixon family's assets and liabilities.

Title: Letter from E.G. Shuster to Jack Brooks, December 5, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-000934
Creator: Shuster, Bud
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1973-12-05
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Representative E.G. Shuster asks Jack Brooks to consider a House investigation of Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox.

Title: Letter from Gerald Ford to Jack Brooks, December 7, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-000975
Creator: Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1973-12-07
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A letter from Vice President Gerald Ford thanking Jack Brooks for confirming Ford's nomination with a handwritten postscript.

Title: Letter from Gerald Ford to Peter Rodino, December 4, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-000972
Creator: Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006
Contributor: Rodino, Peter W.
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1973-12-04
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Representative Gerald Ford responds to a portion of the 52 questions Jack Brooks submitted in consideration of Ford for Vice President after the resignation of Spiro Agnew.

Title: Letter from Gerald Ford to Peter Rodino, November 21, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-000970
Creator: Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006
Contributor: Rodino, Peter W.
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1973-11-21
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Representative Gerald Ford responds to a portion of the 52 questions Jack Brooks submitted in consideration of Ford for Vice President after the resignation of Spiro Agnew.

Title: Letter from Jack Brooks to his constituents regarding the impeachment of Richard Nixon, December 26, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-000943
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1973-12-26
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The letter, sent to all of Jack Brooks's constituents, was written in response to the thousands of constituent letters Brooks received regarding the impeachment inquiry against President Richard Nixon.

Title: Letter from Jack Brooks to Peter Rodino, November 7, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001123
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Contributor: Rodino, Peter W.
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), Financial statements--analysis
Dates: 1974-11-07
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Congressman Brooks returning his copy of the IRS audit report on former President Nixon directly to Chairman Rodino's office. Brooks expresses he has "serious reservations" about sending Impeachment Inquiry materials to the National Archives due to the "sensitive nature" of the materials and their "peculiar relationship to the Executive Branch." He notes that multiple people in the GSA were involved with or appointed by people involved in the Impeachment Inquiry and that it was not in Congress's best interest to turn impeachment materials over to them at that time.

Title: Letter from James St. Clair to Peter Rodino, May 16, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001096
Creator: St. Clair, James D., 1920-2001
Contributor: Rodino, Peter W.
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1974-05-16
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A highlighted copy of a letter sent to Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino by President Richard Nixon's chief legal counsel, discussing Nixon's desire for public impeachment hearings.

Title: Letter from John Banzhaf to Peter Rodino, October 3, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-001430
Creator: Banzhaf, John
Contributor: Rodino, Peter W.
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Watergate Affair (1972-1974)
Dates: 1973-10-03
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Lawyer John Banzhaf writes to Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino regarding Representative Paul Findley's resolution of inquiry on the investigation of Vice President Spiro Agnew.

Title: Letter from Joseph A. Califano to Jack Brooks, June 13, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001144
Creator: Califano, Joseph A., 1931-
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), Impeachment
Dates: 1974-06-13
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter written by Jack Califano, former aide to President Lyndon Johnson attaching a speech he delivered in Washington, D.C. before the Harvard Law School Association about President Richard Nixon's actions during the Watergate Scandal.

Title: Letter from Paul Findley to Jack Brooks, October 4, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-001428
Creator: Findley, Paul, 1921-
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Watergate Affair (1972-1974)
Dates: 1973-10-04
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The letter from Representative Paul Findley discusses Findley's resolution of inquiry regarding the investigation of Vice President Spiro Agnew.

Title: Letter from Paul Findley to Peter Rodino, October 4, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-001429
Creator: Findley, Paul, 1921-
Contributor: Rodino, Peter W.
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Watergate Affair (1972-1974)
Dates: 1973-10-04
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Representative Paul Findley writes to Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino to ask permission to discuss the investigation of Vice President Spiro Agnew with the Judiciary Committee.

Title: Letter from Peter Rodino to Jack Brooks, November 4, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001122
Creator: Rodino, Peter W.
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1974-11-04
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Chairman Rodino requesting that Jack Brooks send him Brooks's copy of the IRS Audit Report on President Nixon. The Impeachment Inquiry staff was finalizing its files for transmittal to the National Archives and Rodino wanted to make sure the Audit was properly placed with the Committee's confidential file so the Archive could control access to it.

Title: Letter from Sam Ervin, Jr. to Peter Rodino, November 13, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-001421
Creator: Ervin, Sam J., Jr. (Sam James), 1896-1985
Contributor: Rodino, Peter W.
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Watergate Affair (1972-1974)
Dates: 1973-11-13
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Senator Sam Ervin writes to Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino regarding broader oversight of the investigation of Nixon's presidential campaign activities.

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