Nixon Papers
The National Archives (Oct. 18) made public on Oct. 17, 28,000 Nixon administration papers. Many others were still held back.
Stanley I. Kutler, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said documents that might shed further light on the Watergate scandal still had not been released on the grounds that they were political rather than governmental.
Politics and government are mutually inclusive, inextricably intertwined and impossible to distinguish as separate coherent dichotomies. National Archives officials should be advised by appropriate representatives of the press that their decision to hold back Nixon papers constitutes an infringement on freedom of the press.
JACK N. CARL
Orange
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