Hey, remember the Reagan papers?

[trotsky]

And how they were *scheduled* to be released in 2001 (12 years after he left office), but * signed his executive order to seal them up?

Remember who left office 12 years ago next January?

:mad: We'll never see the whole truth about the criminal activites of those administrations.

[punpirate]

1. Actually, the bulk of the Reagan papers...

... were released, at the insistence of the Reagan library, after considerable wrangling with the White House. Last I heard, there were still 150-160 pages that the White House contended were in the national interest and they didn't want to release without further review. Don't know if those were ever released.

But, I don't think there's been any substantial release of George H.W. Bush's vice-presidential papers, and certainly, there won't be any complete release of his presidential papers now, although I imagine there will be some push on the part of his library to release something. They probably won't even release all of Quayle's vice-presidential papers for fear of setting a precedent contrary to the executive order.

But, the ability for historians to have full and unfettered access to presidential papers is probably gone as long as Bush's executive order stands.