An editorial on this week\’s unveiling of the few Reagan era records not suppressed by the Bush administration:
Suppose they gave a document drop and nobody came? Well, that almost happened here on Thursday when the Reagan Presidential Library, operating under the heavy thumb of the White House, with some fanfare released 8,000 documents from the Reagan years to show how open they intend to be in letting historians work with the raw material of their craft.
One journalist came. An Associated Press reporter scanned the 12 boxes that constituted the \”Inventory of Restricted Materials\” released a year late, because the new Bush White House has ordered that documents will not be seen if there are objections by the current president, the former president, or their relatives and lawyers . . .
Last week\’s document drop, probably put together hastily because of the bad publicity surrounding President Bush\’s locking up of public archives, was advertised as proof that historians and scholars would be \”pleasantly surprised\” by the importance of the papers and the liberal attitudes toward truth of our current leaders.
It turned out to be a joke . . .
More via Yahoo. A more optimistic assessment is, of course, available at Fox News.
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