February 13, 2009
Scholars Cautiously Praise Obama's New Rules on White House Archives
Historians get better access, but presidential libraries will still hold too many secrets, they say
In November 2001, President George W. Bush issued an executive order that gave presidents and their heirs much more power to restrict the public release of their records through the presidential-library system. For seven years, organizations of scholars and journalists tried unsuccessfully to overturn that order through Congress or the courts.
On his first full day in office,
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