Jack Brooks's statement about Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, mailed to Walter Shapiro, who was writing an article about Jordan for the October 1976 edition of Texas Monthly magazine [camh-dob-001215]. Brooks says that while the media likes to focus on her gender and race, he finds those details "relatively unimportant when assessing her importance as a legislator." Brooks believes that "Miss Jordan is able to recognize what is important in legislation rather than responding to slogans or rhetoric and refusing to waste her efforts on unimportant minutia."
