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Title: CBS Survey, January 10, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001734
Topic: Impeachment, Surveys
Dates: 1974-01-10
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Survey sent by CBS News to House members regarding their views on President Richard Nixon's potential impeachment and their sense of what their district thinks. Jack Brooks marks Inflation and the Oil Crisis as the two most important issues in his district at the time. He indicates that his district would be for impeachment, that impeachment would help his own re-election, and that his opinion of President Nixon has lowered. He does not answer whether he would vote for impeachment.

Title: Form letter from Jack Brooks to constituents, undated [1970]
Identifier: camh-dob-001776
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Vietnam War (1961-1975)
Dates: 1970
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A standard letter sent by Jack Brooks to constituents who wrote to his office to express their disapproval with the expansion of the Vietnam War into other regions of Southeast Asia including Cambodia.

Title: Letter from a constituent to Jack Brooks, August 31, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001115
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Watergate Affair (1972-1974)
Dates: 1974-08-31
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A constituent letter from O.W. Fisher supporting capital punishment. Fisher discusses the 1974 uprising at Huntsville State Prison, which was in Jack Brooks's district. He also expresses concern regarding the money allocated by the government for Richard Nixon's transition out of the presidency.

Title: Letter from constituents to Richard Nixon and Jack Brooks, May 17, 1970
Identifier: camh-dob-001777
Contributor: Nixon, Richard M. Richard Milhous, 1913-1994, Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Protest movements
Dates: 1970-05-17
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A copy of a letter from Elton and Helen Eubanks of Port Arthur, TX sent to President Richard Nixon and copied to Jack Brooks. The Eubanks' express their disapproval of campus protests and resultant opposition to the lowering of the voting age to eighteen. The 26th amendment to the Constitution, lowering the voting age to eighteen, was ratified the following year.

Title: Letter from Jack Brooks to a constituent, June 4, 1970
Identifier: camh-dob-001775
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Vietnam War (1961-1975)
Dates: 1970-06-04
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Copy of a letter written in response to a letter from Ed Stedman of Beaumont, TX. Jack Brooks expresses his disappointment with the expansion of U.S. military activity from Vietnam into other parts of Southeast Asia including Cambodia. Brooks is hesitant to criticize the Nixon Administration's policy in the region.

Title: Letter from Jack Brooks to a constituent, October 26, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001189
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Watergate Affair (1972-1974)
Dates: 1974-10-26
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A reply to a constituent letter from O.W. Fisher, discussing the 1974 Huntsville State Prison siege and the cost of Richard Nixon's transition out of the presidency.

Title: Letter from Jack Brooks to constituents, January 26, 1970
Identifier: camh-dob-001773
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Vietnam War (1961-1975)
Dates: 1970-01-26
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Copy of a letter written by Jack Brooks in response to a petition sent by Port Arthur, TX residents regarding the lack of care for South Vietnamese orphans. Brooks criticizes the Nixon Administration for their inaction on this issue and states his support for military aid. Brooks responded to each signee individually.

Title: Notes on impeachment articles, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-001877
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Impeachment
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Copy of typed notes with handwritten edits regarding events that underpin various articles of impeachment.