PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS

Abstract

Allow me to observe that the Executive Order of President Bush of November 1, 2001, blocking access to the records of Presidents Reagan and the first President Bush, in circumvention of the requirements of the Presidential Records Act of 1978; the dispute concerning the papers of Mayor Giuliani of New York; the suit by the General Accounting Office against Vice President Cheney because of his refusal to provide names of the persons who took part in his secret Energy Task Force meetings; and the controversy over the decision by Governor Bush of Texas to send his records as governor not . . .