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Title: Congressman Peter W. Rodino announces the results of the January 24 meeting of the Judiciary Committee's Advisory Committee on its impeachment inquiry, January 24, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001014
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1974-01-24
Box: 2007-255/315
Folder: 267.9
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A summary of the January 24, 1974 meeting of the Judiciary Committee with its Advisory Committee to receive a progress report from Special Counsel John Doar. The Advisory Committee agreed it was necessary for the Judiciary Committee to introduce a resolution to the House of Representatives to explicitly confirm the Judiciary Committee's responsibility and jurisdiction to investigate the conduct of the President and whether or not the President had committed Constitutionally impeachable offenses.

Title: Draft resolution of impeachment, January 29, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001854
Creator: Doar, John, 1921-2014
Topic: Impeachment, United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1974-01-29
Box: 2007-255/326
Folder: 0.28
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Draft resolution of impeachment prepared by John Doar, special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment inquiry. This copy includes handwritten emendations, but it is unclear who marked up the draft.

Title: Letter from James D. St. Clair to John Doar, April 9, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001163
Creator: St. Clair, James D., 1920-2001
Contributor: Doar, John, 1921-2014
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Impeachment
Dates: 1974-04-09
Box: 2007-255/328
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter continuing negotiations regarding what materials President Nixon's administration will share with the House Judiciary Committee. (contains highlights from someone in Congressman Brooks' office.) Focus is likely on White House tapes, although they are not mentioned specifically.

Title: Letter from James D. St. Clair to John Doar, dated March 13, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001160
Creator: St. Clair, James D., 1920-2001
Contributor: Doar, John, 1921-2014
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Impeachment
Dates: 1974-03-13
Box: 2007-255/328
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter complaining that request for participation in hearings and pre-trial discovery had not been passed on by Judiciary Committee during March 12 meeting.

Title: Letter from James D. St. Clair to John Doar, dated March 6, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001155
Creator: St. Clair, James D., 1920-2001
Contributor: Doar, John, 1921-2014
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Watergate Affair (1972-1974)
Dates: 1974-03-06
Box: 2007-255/328
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: In which the President's attorney declines, on his behalf, to grant access to presidential documents and records.

Title: Letter from James D. St. Clair to John Doar, dated March 6, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001159
Creator: St. Clair, James D., 1920-2001
Contributor: Doar, John, 1921-2014
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Impeachment
Dates: 1974-03-06
Box: 2007-255/328
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter requesting participation in hearings and pre-hearing discovery that might take place in connection with impending impeachment inquiry.

Title: Letter from John Doar, Special Counsel to Jack Brooks, dated March 8, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001156
Creator: Doar, John, 1921-2014
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Watergate Affair (1972-1974)
Dates: 1974-03-08
Box: 2007-255/328
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Cover letter to other material (including a letter from Peter Rodino to Chief Judge John J. Sirica), which Doar reports he is sending to Brooks at Rodino's request.

Title: Letter from John Doar to James D. St. Clair, April 11, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001228
Creator: Doar, John, 1921-2014
Contributor: St. Clair, James D., 1920-2001
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Watergate Affair (1972-1974)
Dates: 1974-04-11
Box: 2007-255/328
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter informs President Richard Nixon's attorney, James D. St. Clair, of the House Judiciary Committee's decision to subpoena forty-two recorded White House conversations which were initially requested in February of 1974.

Title: Letter from John Doar to James D. St. Clair, April 11, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001229
Creator: Doar, John, 1921-2014
Contributor: St. Clair, James D., 1920-2001
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Watergate Affair (1972-1974)
Dates: 1974-04-11
Box: 2007-255/328
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter asking James D. St. Clair, President Richard Nixon's attorney, to accept service of the House Judiciary Committee's subpoena seeking access to forty-two recorded White House conversations.

Title: Letter from John Doar to James D. St. Clair, April 4, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001232
Creator: Doar, John, 1921-2014
Contributor: St. Clair, James D., 1920-2001
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Watergate Affair (1972-1974)
Dates: 1974-04-04
Box: 2007-255/328
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter establishing specific basis for obtaining items asked for in February of 1974.

Title: Letter from John Doar to James D. St. Clair, dated February 25, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001158
Creator: Doar, John, 1921-2014
Contributor: St. Clair, James D., 1920-2001
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Watergate Affair (1972-1974)
Dates: 1974-02-25
Box: 2007-255/328
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter confirms previous conersation in which Doar makes document requests from White House

Title: Letter from John Doar to James D. St. Clair, dated March 15, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001161
Creator: Doar, John, 1921-2014
Contributor: St. Clair, James D., 1920-2001
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Impeachment
Dates: 1974-03-15
Box: 2007-255/328
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter in response to St. Clair's complaint in camh-dob-001160, explaining that St. Clair's request had not been raised in the March 12 Judiciary Committee meeting because the meeting was for Committee business only, and assuring that Nixon's lawyer's request to participate in discovery would be taken up at the next meeting held in connection with the impeachment inquiry.

Title: Resolution, Draft, January 29, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-002105
Creator: Doar, John, 1921-2014
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), Impeachment
Dates: 1974-01-29
Box: 2007-255/328
Folder: 10
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: John Doar's draft resolution to appropriate power to the Committee on the Judiciary to investigate whether sufficient grounds exist to impeach President Richard Nixon. Item includes handwritten edits to draft (last two pages), likely written by Jack Brooks.