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Originally Posted by reconmike
....all you know about Carter is what you have read....
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Shouldnt "what we read" (and what historians have access to) include all relevant presidential documents (like all of Carter's publicly available background docs on the Camp David peace accord, docs that lead to the first national energy policy or a foreign policy docs that promoted human rights, etc)....rather than only the docs a president wants to provide?
That is the question that should be addressed.
Should Bush be able to withhold documents from the Reagan and GHW Bush presidencies to protect their legacies? Should he be able to withhold docs from his own presidency if it prevent us from "reading the truth"?