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Title: Letter from a constituent to Jack Brooks, July 27, 1966
Identifier: camh-dob-002414
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: African Americans--Civil Rights, Legislation
Dates: 1966-07-27
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A letter from constituent L. A. Darnall of Port Arthur, Texas, expressing his opposition to the Civil Rights Bill of 1966.

Title: Letter from a White House staffer to Jack Brooks, July 27, 1966
Identifier: camh-dob-001132
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Screwworm--Control
Dates: 1966-07-27
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Jacobsen, Legislative Counsel to President Lyndon B. Johnson, sends Jck Brooks one of the pens used by President Johnson to sign H.R. 14888, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to cooperate in screw-worm eradication in Mexico.

Title: Letter from Jack Brooks to a Mexican business official, July 27, 1966
Identifier: camh-dob-001133
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Screwworm--Control
Dates: 1966-07-27
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks sends Octavio Ochoa Ochoa, President of Confederacion Nacional Ganadera of Mexico, a pen used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to sign H.R. 14888. This legislation authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to cooperate in screwworm eradication with Mexico. Brooks mentions that their mutual friend, Dolph Briscoe, Jr., was present at the signing.