June 13, 2008
Democracy Requires a Past
The Bush administration does not appear to believe that our way of life depends on access to our history
In 1941, at the dedication of his presidential library, Franklin D. Roosevelt clearly articulated why the nation's archives and presidential-library system are so vital to our democracy.
"To bring together the records of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future, a Nation must believe in three things," he
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