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Historians: Stop Bush/Cheney From Destroying Presidential Records
Think Progress reports:
Thirty-two of the nation’s leading historians have sent letters to congressional leaders calling on them to stregthen the Presidential Records Act (PRA). The effort, led by the Center for American Progress Action Fund and joined by the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the National Coalition for History, notes that while the PRA requires the administration to preserve presidential records, “it fails to provide an effective means of enforcing compliance with that requirement.”
The letters are available here and here. Given the Bush administration’s record of secrecy and deception, the preservation of presidential records is a crucial way to seal, in writing, concrete proof of their World-Historical malevolence: not necessarily for all of us who got the chance to live through Bush’s presidency, but for future generations who might be interested in the truth as opposed to some hypothetical white-washed narrative, the likes of which history so often succumbs.