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Title: Appropriations Subcommittee Hearing, June 27, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-001990
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1973-06-27
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Handwritten notes taken by Jack Brooks during an Appropriations Subcommittee hearing regarding public funds spent on the private homes of President Richard Nixon.

Title: Handwritten notes, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-001993
Creator: Jones, Bill
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Governmental Investigations
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Handwritten notes, likely by Jack Brooks's longtime aide, Bill Jones, regarding the 1973 investigation of public funds spent on presidential properties. The notes include total known expenditures at San Clemente, California, and Key Biscayne, Florida, which at that point totaled $10,124,000, excluding approximately $1,000,000 per year for Secret Service guards. Also listed are seven items of interest, including a $65,000 fence at Key Biscayne that was a replica of the White House fence, and $172,000 spent on landscaping and paving at San Clemente to enhance its value.

Title: Hearings, Government Activities Subcommittee, 92nd Congress, February 29, 1972
Identifier: camh-dob-002240
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1972-02-29
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A list of hearings conducted by the Government Activities Subcommittee, chaired by Jack Brooks, during the 92nd Congress.

Title: Internal office tracking of district mailers, July 23, 1962
Identifier: camh-dob-001509
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Letters
Dates: 1962-07-23
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Document tracking how many news releases of Jack Brooks's subcommittee work were sent to organizations in his district.

Title: Investigations into Expenditures at San Clemente and Key Biscayne, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-001240
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Governmental Investigations
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Unattributed notes, possibly written by Jack Brooks or his staff, outlining the results of several investigations into government expenditures at San Clemente and Key Biscayne, all of which determined that improper expenditures were made, and that President Richard Nixon personally benefited at public expense.

Title: Missed call message, February 22, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001733
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1974-02-22
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Office note indicating a request from Craig Hines, a reporter, for a statement from Jack Brooks on President Richard Nixon's justification for using public funds to upgrade his residence in San Clemente, CA.

Title: Nixon's Intention to Donate San Clemente to United States, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-001239
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Governmental Investigations
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Unattributed notes, possibly written by Jack Brooks, regarding President Richard Nixon's stated intention to donate his San Clemente property to the United States government and why it does not affect his alleged violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution.

Title: Note from Clarence J. Brown, Jr. to Jack Brooks, March 11, 1976
Identifier: camh-dob-001832
Creator: Brown, Clarence J., 1927-
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Dates: 1976-03-11
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Note given to Jack Brooks by Congressman Clarence J. Brown, a Republican colleague on the Government Operations Committee, during a mark-up session on revenue sharing. Brooks was the chairman.

Title: President's Knowledge of Activities at San Clemente and Key Biscayne, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-001238
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Governmental Investigations
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Unattributed notes, possibly written by Jack Brooks or his staff, on President Richard Nixon's improvements and renovations at Key Biscayne and San Clemente beyond those made at his own expense.

Title: Questions for Secret Service witnesses, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-002173
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Governmental Investigations
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Copy of questions and anticipated answers for Secret Service witnesses scheduled to appear at hearings held by the Government Activities Subcommittee in its investigation of the use of federal funds to improve President Nixon's private homes in San Clemente, CA and Key Biscayne, FL. The document is unsigned and undated.

Title: Staff note, January 20, 1976
Identifier: camh-dob-001985
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Dates: 1976-01-20
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The note alerts Jack Brooks to the successful delivery of his letter to the Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger. Brooks wrote the letter to confront Kissinger on his failure to respond to Brooks's request to have the former ambassador to South Vietnam, Graham Martin, testify before a Government Operations subcommittee. The subcomittee was scheduled to hold hearings regarding the evacuation of South Vietnam. Brooks was the chairman of the Government Operations Committee.

Title: Staff note, September 3, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-002054
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1973-09-03
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The handwritten note discusses the possibility that documents regarding the use of federal funds at President Richard Nixon's home in San Clemente might be fabricated, according to Don B. Reynolds. Reynolds was one of the men who testified in the corruption hearings against Bobby Baker, President Lyndon B. Johnson's former secretary.