Papers, 1956-1988 (bulk 1963-1978).

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Papers, 1956-1988 (bulk 1963-1978).

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Correspondence, memoranda, writings, speeches, transcripts of interviews, reports, notes, subject files, draft and printed legislative bills, briefing books, press releases, photographs, and other papers, relating chiefly to Brooke's career as attorney general of Massachusetts (1963-1966) and as U.S. senator (1967-1978). Cases as attorney general relate to conflict of interest, consumer protection, corruption, eminent domain, and the Boston Strangler case. Papers as senator relate largely to domestic issues such as housing, the aged, and poverty. Other topics include material relating to the bicentennial of the American Revolution, civil rights, unfair competition, economic conditions in Massachusetts, energy policy, fishing rights, foreign policy, military base closures, military policy, the financial crisis of New York City, nominations of Clement H. Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell to the U.S. Supreme Court, Vietnamese Conflict, and the Watergate scandal. Includes materials relating to Brooke's participation in Republican Party politics; papers (1979-1988) from his private legal practice in Washington, D.C., relating primarily to cases involving the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; and files of Massachusetts assistant attorney generals including Edward T. Martin, Donald Whitehead, and Roger Woodworth. Correspondents include Howard H. Baker, John S. Bottomly, Jimmy Carter, Silvio O. Conte, Clarence Elam, Gerald R. Ford, Albert A. Gammal, Jr., Mark O. Hatfield, Hubert H. Humphrey, Jacob K. Javits, Lyndon B. Johnson, Kivie Kaplan, Edward T. Martin, Richard M. Nixon, Harold and Glendora Putnam, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Francis W. Sargent, Hugh Scott, Josiah A. Spaulding, John A. Volpe, Roger Woodworth, and Charlotte Yaffee.

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