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US Archivist Preps for July 4 on 'Real' Independence Day
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 2) -- David Ferriero stands inside a chilly vault deep within the National Archives building here and looks on as an archivist reads from an original resolution passed 234 years ago today by the Continental Congress: Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. At the bottom of what became known as the Lee Declaration are 12 hash marks in the ...
National Archives Digs Deep for New Civil War Exhibit
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (April 27) -- There are no tattered wool uniforms or rusty rifle muskets in "Discovering the Civil War," a new exhibit opening Friday at the National Archives. But the paper relics that make up most of the display are in some ways much easier to grasp. Take the 1862 letter from seamstresses at the U.S. Arsenal in Philadelphia to the secretary of war. In it, they complain about losing work to a contractor who paid them half what the government did and note that many were sole wage earners because their husbands were away in the Army. ...
Nixon Aides Pushed Race-Driven Strategy to Divide Democrats in 1972
By David Sessions - Politics DailyDocuments released by the National Archives reveal that aides to President Richard Nixon hoped to stir controversy among Democrats before the 1972 election by fueling a push for black candidates, CNN reports. A report titled "Dividing the Democrats" outlines a plan for "spreading out into the ghettos of the country" to convince black Americans to run as Democrats and turn white voters against the Democratic Party. ...
Government Secrets Can't Last Forever
By Tamara Lytle - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Dec. 30) – About 400 million pages of government documents – from World War II through the Cuban Missile Crisis to the final days of the Cold War – have been sitting in boxes for decades, their secrets hidden. But a new order by President Barack Obama will declassify them within four years unless they meet narrow exceptions. It's the first time a president has has laid out in writing that executive branch documents cannot be classified forever – a sea change, according to William J. Bosanko, director of the Information Security Oversight Office, which is ...
Judge Orders Cheney to Preserve Records
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyOn Saturday a federal judge ordered Dick Cheney not to destroy files from his nearly eight years as vice president. The organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, along with a group of historians and archivists, sued Cheney and the Bush administration to make sure that no presidential records are destroyed or in any way kept from the public. Cheney's main defense has been to insist that his office is not part of the executive branch but rather attached by the Constitution to Congress. The decision by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly is a setback for the Bush ...
Clinton Document Dump: Won't You Help?
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAs you may or may not be aware, the National Archives today released 11,000 pages of documents related to Hillary Clinton's schedule during her stint as First Lady. An embarrassment of riches, or just an embarrassment, or maybe an embarrassment about the riches? Who can tell, with so many to go through. So, we here at The Political Machine want to take a page out of the Bush Administration's book and draft you, our readers, to comb through these and point out entries that you find interesting. After all, that's what the comments section is for. If you come across any nuclear secrets, drop ...
The Other Clinton Papers To Be Released
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyHer opponents have wondered aloud what exactly Hillary Clinton's much-touted 'experience' was during her husband's White House years. Well now we'll get a glimpse at what her time was like as First Lady, since the National Archives has announced it will release her schedules from those days. Some 10,000 pages, with many more possibly to come, including 20,000 pages worth of phone logs.Hillary Clinton has faced criticism from fellow Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Republicans over the number of White House documents that have not been made public.I can only imagine how many ...
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