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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 Articles of Impeachment, July 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001021
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1974-07
Box: 2007-255/315
Folder: 268.3
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A 12-page typewritten draft of Articles of Impeachment with handwritten notes for editing. The draft originally had 10 different Articles but handwritten edits brought it down to 7 different Articles. The House Judiciary Committee ultimately agreed upon three articles of impeachment against President Nixon. A label on the front says "Draft Showing Most Changes" [camh-dob-001678].

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
Box: 2007-255/284
Folder: 248.7
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 and typed lists of people who could corroborate information related to the impeachment of President Richard Nixon, October 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-000941
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1973-10
Box: 2007-255/284
Folder: 248.7
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The documents list potential sources regarding the impeachment inquiry against President Richard Nixon.

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
Box: 2007-255/315
Folder: 267.12
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
Box: 2007-255/328
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: Judiciary Committee notice of meeting, October 26, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-000961
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1973-10-26
Box: 2007-255/284
Folder: 248.8
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: During the meeting, Judiciary Committee members will discuss subpoena authority, the confirmation of Gerald Ford as Vice President, and the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.

Title: Letter from a constituent to Jack Brooks, August 22, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-000962
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1973-08-22
Box: 2007-255/284
Folder: 248.8
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A constituent letter from Mrs. Ralph H. Foster in support of the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.

Title: Letter from a constituent to Jack Brooks, August 6, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-000967
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1973-08-06
Box: 2007-255/284
Folder: 248.8
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A constituent letter from Richard Tomlinson in support of the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.

Title: Letter from a constituent to Jack Brooks, January 28, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001020
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1974-01-28
Box: 2007-255/315
Folder: 267.9
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A constituent, Grace Foote of Port Arthur, criticizes Brooks for the language he used in his mailed statement regarding the Watergate Investigation. Foote accuses Brooks of being an "uninformed Democrat" and of "doing a little witch-hunting."

Title: Letter from a constituent to Jack Brooks, July 30, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001113
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1974-07-30
Box: 2007-255/314
Folder: 266.6
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A letter from constituent Ed Bryson expressing support for Jack Brooks's work during the impeachment inquiry of President Richard Nixon.

Title: Letter from a constituent to Jack Brooks, November 24, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-000944
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1973-11-24
Box: 2007-255/284
Folder: 248.7
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A constituent letter from David Bennett in support of impeaching President Richard Nixon.

Title: Letter from a constituent to Jack Brooks, October 27, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-000963
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1973-10-27
Box: 2007-255/284
Folder: 248.8
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A constituent letter from Georg Hampton against the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.

Title: Letter from a constituent written on a statement sent to constituents by Jack Brooks, January 25, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001011
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1974-01-25
Box: 2007-255/315
Folder: 267.9
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: In response to Brooks's mailed statement regarding the Watergate investigation, a constituent, Mrs. Fred Demler, mailed it back to his office with annotations and a note expressing her strong disagreement with Brooks' stance on Watergate and his opinion of President Nixon. She writes: "I figured some day you would hang yourself. This will probably do it."

Title: Letter from Chesterfield Smith to E.G. Shuster, November 20, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-001431
Creator: Smith, Chesterfield, 1917-2003
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1973-11-20
Box: 2007-255/284
Folder: 248.1
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Chesterfield Smith, the president of the American Bar Association, urges Representative E.G. Shuster to lobby for an investigation of Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox.

Title: Letter from E. Ernest Goldstein to Jack Brooks, July 23, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001025
Creator: Goldstein, E. Ernest, 1918-
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1974-07-23
Box: 2007-255/315
Folder: 268.4
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Former Special Assistant to President Johnson, E. Ernest Goldstein, writes to Congressman Jack Brooks to applaud his efforts in the Watergate investigation and Impeachment hearings. He is amused by the question of whether the President knew about Watergate on March 17, 21, or 22, 1973, considering he himself had known about it over in Paris back in October 1972. He attaches the letter he wrote to John Connally about Watergate and Nixon [camh-dob-001024].

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
Box: 2007-255/284
Folder: 248.1
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
Box: 2007-255/284
Folder: 248.11
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
Box: 2007-255/284
Folder: 248.11
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
Box: 2007-255/284
Folder: 248.11
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.

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