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First Clinton Presidential Papers ReleasedThe William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum made more than 100,000 pages of Clinton’s presidential records available for researchers February 23, the first public release of any of the former president’s records since the end of his administration. The documents include files from two members of Clinton’s domestic policy staff as well as the records of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States.Clinton had said he wanted to release the records sooner than outlined under the Presidential Records Act, which allows for public access beginning five years after the end of an administration. In other presidential-library news, more than 9,700 pages of former President George H. W. Bush’s records previously withheld under the Presidential Records Act were opened for research on February 18. So far, the Bush Library has opened approximately 5.4 million pages of records from the executive office, and the library plans to continue reviewing previously withheld records for possible release, estimating such records will total 57,000 pages. The Bush records were made public a week after the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs confirmed historian Allen Weinstein as archivist of the United States February 10. President Bush’s April 2004 nomination of Weinstein drew fire from groups that claimed the administration pushed former archivist John W. Carlin out in order to appoint someone more amenable to keeping the president’s father’s sensitive papers under wraps. Posted February 25, 2005. |
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