SIMI VALLEY : More Reagan Papers to Be Released
Officials at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library said Tuesday that an additional 330,000 pages of documents from Reagan’s years in the White House will be available to researchers July 12.
The opening of the additional records will bring to nearly 7.1 million the number of pages available for review in the library, which contains roughly 50 million pages of records from the Reagan presidency, library Director Ralph C. Bledsoe said.
Bledsoe said the most recent documents cleared for public consumption delve a bit deeper into the Reagan Administration’s policy-making mechanism.
“This will give researchers and scholars more insight into the processes used on the White House and will increase the size of the collection that is open for researchers,” he said.
Since the library opened in November, 1991, archivists have worked to comb through the boxes of records stored there to determine which documents can be released to the public, Bledsoe said.
The Reagan library is one of nine presidential libraries operated and maintained by the National Archives.
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