March 18, 2005

Historians Question Partisanship of Nixon Library

By ERIC WILLS

Sixteen scholars have asked the government to suspend its proposed transfer of Richard Nixon's presidential records to the Nixon Library and Birthplace because of concerns that the library would limit public access and jeopardize their preservation, the scholars said in a letter faxed to Congress last week.

The scholars wrote that their concerns arose when the Nixon library canceled an academic conference that it was scheduled to present about the president's role in the Vietnam War,

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