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Handwritten poem reflecting on Soviet war in Afghanistan ; Brooks Hays Feb. 24-80 Afghanistan The little nations of the World Are just as precious as the great, The Afghan's sturdy little mules As big ones from a Western State But Moscow moves its armored power- To subjugate the mountain laud, And everywhere free men condemn Betrayal of Afghanistan. Moscow's contempt for rule of law, Its blindness to the rights of men, Its willful fight against the stars Sustain world's view, "they cannot win". Brooks Hays Washington D.C. Feb 24 – 1980

Handwritten list of Brooks Hays' speaking engagements ; 1975 continued March 15 Mem Baptist Men Breakfast A'ton March 18 Arkansas Society March 19 Close Up March 24 SE States – Family - Chattanooga March 28 George Washington University Class Reunion Professor Charles Roll March 30 Easter - Vaughn April 6 Childrens' Sermon – Capitol Hill Methodist April 8 Duke University Seminar April 8 ? University of North Carolina – Political Science April 9 Grace church – Richmond, Virginia April 12 Wesley College Starnes et al April 13 Ephesus Church Pop Johnson April 17 Riverside Church NY FOR April 18 Caleb Boggs – "Honors" Lunch – Washington April 20 FOR Calvary April 23 St. Petersburg Florida NCCJ April 26 Rockville Church (Jim Duncan)

Prayer offered at the opening of the Former Members of Congress meeting in Carpenter's Hall ; EXTEMPORANEOUS PRAYER OF BROOKS HAYS AT FMC SESSION IN CARPENTERS' HALL PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. October 25, 1974 Our Father, we come to Thee with a deep sense of solemnity and with profound gratitude for the blessings of a national life, rich in traditions and principles of spiritual import. We thank Thee that our life is not rootless, that the stream of government has a beautiful source. We thank Thee for the contribution, to human progress made in this place by the giants of another century. And we who have entered a post-Congressional period thank Thee for opportunities to serve our country in a peripheral zone. We thank Thee for watching over us in times of peril and in times of peace. And in our government's policies and activities may nothing ever be done that conflicts with the greatest and highest good of the peoples of other lands who are also within the orbit of Thy love and care. May today's conference be productive. May it be a happy time, but even in moments of gaiety may a sense of Thy presence not be lost. We ask it in Thy name. Amen

Personal recollection of Hays' association with United States presidents throughout the twentieth century ; 2-21-73 PRESIDENTS I HAVE KNOWN By Brooks Hays I have seen all of the presidents elected in this century, twelve of them, which is one third of all who have ever served. I have heard all of these twelve speak except Woodrow Wilson, yet I am more familiar with his words and philosophy than I am with many of the others, for I had a feeling of adulation for him. I did see him in the inaugural parade of 1921, when he was a broken man. I heard Teddy Roosevelt speak from the back end of a train in Russellville about 1910 when he was on a tour to advocate certain reforms. I heard Mr. Taft speak to University of Arkansas students in 1917 when he was giving considerable time to the advocacy of the League of Nations. Later, I heard him say as Chief Justice in 1925 when Congressman Ragon moved my admission to the Supreme Court, " Mr. Hays, you may take the oath." I was in the vast audience that witnessed Warren Harding's inauguration, Mar. 4 1921. It was the first time that voice amplification was utilised, and I had an eerie feeling as I heard the booming voice of the presiding officer nearly 200 yards away. My next inauguration experience was on March 4, 1933, when I sat much closer to the podium and heard Franklin Roosevelt sworn in. (I was Democratic National Committeeman at the time.) The first president that I had the privilege of conversing with was Herbert Hoover. It was after his term as president ended and it took place in his apartment in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. -more-

Personal recollection of Hays' association with United States presidents throughout the twentieth century ; Page 3 - Presidents I Have Known - Brooks Hays Later, as a member of the Democratic National Committee for seven years and as a Congressman during the last two years of his life. I developed a warm friendship with him. My best opportunity for conversations with him were in small dinner meetings that took place before I gave up my National Committee activities. A particularly enjoyable and enlightening experience was on the train which brought him to Little Rock in 1936 for the Arkansas Centennial. Senator Robinson and two Texas friends and myself were the President's dinner guests in his private dining car, and the long evening produced some exciting and intimate observations by the President and the Senator. I induced a great outburst of laughter from the President after agreeing with him when he asked me to concur on the point that tax issues had become too technical to be used in campaigning. I told him about my 1928 campaign for governor, in which I stressed tax reform. I related an incident that took place in a remote community when I had an interruption from a blacksmith standing in front of his shop. "That talk about taxes is all right, I reckon," he said. "But what we folks here want to know is how do you stand on evolution?" The President asked about my reply and laughed again when I summed it up by their saying after I had left, "If Brooks is as good a two-stepper as he is a side-stepper he must be popular at them Little Rock dances." Mr. Roosevelt was familiar with my work in behalf of farm tenancy legislation and heartily approved of it. He took great pride in the enactment of the Bankhead-Jones Act which not only promoted farm ownership but also provided a constructive program for rural development. -more-

Personal recollection of Hays' association with United States presidents throughout the twentieth century ; Page 4 - Presidents I Have Known - Brooks Hays HST I became acquainted with General Eisenhower in the war years and admired him very much. In 1951 I had an hour-long visit with him in his Paris headquarters in the period when he was laying the basis for a strong allied defense against aggression. As I told him goodbye he said, Fifty Congressman have visited me and you are one of only two who didn't ask if I am going to run for President. Thanks!" He appointed me a delegate to the U.N. in 1955, and in other ways evidenced friendship. Two years later, the Little Rock school crisis brought us together in a new working relationship. He documented our efforts to prevent violence and achieve enforcement of court orders, in his memoirs. My part in those significant events is faithfully portrayed. When I was defeated for a ninth term, over the desegregation issue, he did not relent in efforts to find a place in his administration that would appeal to me, although he and his aides knew I did not feel that he had any obligation to me. Nevertheless, when he offered to appoint me to the TVA board for a nine-year term, I accepted and spent two years in that important agency. See PP 6-7, Ervin Committee Hearings President Kennedy and I served in the House together from 1946 till 1950, when he was elected to the Senate. In his first term I came to respect him as an earnest and highly competent young legislator. In later years we became warm friends -more-

Personal recollection of Hays' association with United States presidents throughout the twentieth century ; Page 6 - Presidents I Have Known - Brooks Hays Mr. Johnson took understandable pride in his legislative programs to ameliorate hardships of the poor. Historians will confirm the assertion of his friends that he loved people. Finally, I knew Mr. Nixon as a freshman Congressman who was elected to the House four years after I took office. Our relationship, though not close, has been a pleasant one and based on mutual respect as members of different parties. My wife and I have been White House guests on one occasion since he became president, and he took time to ask me if I remembered the letter he wrote me after my defeat in 1958. "Yes, Mr. President," I said. "It was one of the very best ones I received and it appeared on page one of the New York Herald-Tribune, Nov. 24, 1958." "You remember," he replied with a grin. These are some of the fleeting memories I have of the six modern preisdents [sic] whom it was my great privilege to know and work with. I could tell more, and I will tell more if I ever get around to writing my own memoirs. -30-

Congratulatory letter to Mizell on his Congressional election victory over Hays ; November 8, 1972 The Honorable Wilmer Mizell House of Representatives Washington, D.C. Dear Wilmer: I congratulate you sincerely on your impressive victory. I have tried, as I know you have, to keep our contest on an impersonal basis, and I trust that the occasional points of tension that are inevitable in any race will not be construed by others to have impaired our friendship. While our differences in some policy matters are substantial, I think you will agree that we found some important points of agreement. I refer, for example, to the New River problem. I will be glad to help you carry out your pledge to prevent the construction of the dams. If there is any other undertaking affecting the common interests of the 5th District in which you think I might be helpful, I am at your command. With all good wishes, I am, Sincerely, Brooks Hays BH:ds

Explanatory note that accompanies cartoon, written at a later date ; over 2. It didn't work out That way. In the 50's There was enuf [sic] Flexibility on Pro side To make for real progress. The anti's with just a few exceptions were unyielding. More progress in the 60's

Typed poem reflecting on Hays' conception of the American dream ; What is the American dream? It is the anticipation that sometime we will be able to say — Here is equality and freedom; Here is brotherhood and justice. The dream is of compassion expressing itself in society's concern for those who fall by the way in a competitive system. It is imagination perfecting the mechanisms of government. It is sensitivity to the claim of righteousness in human affairs. It is the hope that triumphs here will strengthen values that are shared with other people around the world. It is human kindness so penetrating the nation that every man, no matter how incapacitated, will feel that he is wanted. It is the vision of opened doors of opportunity. It is insistence upon government by as well as of and for the people. It is the hope of human dignity made secure. It is the longing for acknowledgment of the human family's oneness. It is the vision of a citizenry drawn together in mutual confidence, facing common evils and exalting a common faith in God. This is my conception of the American dream.

Explanatory note that accompanies cartoon, written at a later date ; This was drawn in 1949. In present per- spective doesn't mean much. What I was trying to do was to show that "white" extremists adamantly sticking to the "whole" program some of which was impractical and even unfair were hurting civil rights as much as "states rights" extremists. Over