Series: Part I: Materials Organized in 1984, 1930-1973
Scope and Content Note: This portion of the Keefe Papers primarily documents the congressman's work as a minority member of the Pearl Harbor investigating committee and the Commission for the Renovation of the White House. Unfortunately the collection contains no information other than a brief mention concerning his important work in support of federally-funded medical research. The Pearl Harbor files donated by Keefe's daughter originally included the voluminous printed committee report, which was transferred to the Society Library, and an extensive file of exhibits, which were discarded because they were published in the report. Retained is a file of constituent correspondence, 1945-1946, concerning the investigation. This is of interest primarily for the strong degree of anti-Roosevelt feeling expressed, although a few letters touch on arrangements for the hearings and the presentation of evidence. Of some note are letters to John T. Flynn and James B. Forrestal and from John W. Byrnes, Harrison Spangler, and Robert E. Wood. Also in the collection are handwritten notes, questions to be asked at the hearings, and a draft and printed copy of Keefe's appended comments on the final report. Pertaining to the commission on the remodeling of the White House are a file of minutes from 1950. Also in the collection are 1942 congressional newsletters, a few speeches and remarks, and biographical clippings and information.

Correspondence regarding Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, 1945-1946

Minutes, Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion, 1950

Speeches, reports, statements, 1930, 1946

Newsletters, 1942

Notes, regarding Pearl Harbor investigation, 1945-1946

Biographical information