The Nation : Nixon Papers to Go Public
The government cleared the way for making public 40 million pages of former President Richard M. Nixon’s White House papers and 4,000 hours of taped conversations that have been impounded since Nixon resigned as President on Aug. 9, 1974. Jill Merrill, spokeswoman for the National Archives, said tapes and documents already screened by archivists could be released this spring, unless new barriers are erected. “We have 2 million pages ready to go,” she said. More will be available as archivists weed out sensitive materials.
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