Reagan must have known that the papers would be made public. I wager that a lot of liberals would be embarassed if they were made public. And a lot of RINOs. It's a two-edged sword. I'm not surprised by this. Bush also declared executive priviledge to cover Clinton's hide too.

The "sensitive" nature may include documentation regarding
covert actions inside foreign nations; our preparedness for
bio-chemical attack or nuclear attack; our ability to sustain
attacks against certain types of warfare, or our means of
securing our leaders during periods of attack against this Nation.

Sometimes, "the right to know" isn't justified. Once made public,
the data is available for all, terrorists included.

 

But conservatives are a funny bunch. They don't mind cover-ups by their own side. It's just the other guys who need watching.

Would the DNC be 'funny' too? I'll hold my 'funny' against your 'funny' any day of the week. But, I don't like 'funny' on either side.

re:
"..Anybody who does not think that Dubya is doing this to
keep the truth about his father from coming out is an idiot....."

Rather:

Anybody who does think that Dubya is doing this to keep
the truth about his father from coming out is an idiot!

The "sensitive" nature may include documentation regarding covert actions inside foreign nations; our preparedness for bio-chemical attack or nuclear attack; our ability to sustain attacks against certain types of warfare, or our means of securing our leaders during periods of attack against this Nation.

Are any congressmembers deciding this along with Bush? I think this might be another 'executive priviledge' moment.

That's what I was wondering. Does this focus on military action? It doesn't make as much sense to employ for other areas.

What a BS, Misleading headline. The EO applies to ALL presidents, not just Reagan. Should read... Bush Limits Access to Presidential Papers, Draws Criticism

That is a far more accurate and honest headline.

Those decisions may be challenged in federal court, he said.

I hope that Rohrabacher, Barr, [or two other respected conservatives] and a couple democrats get together and demand they look those papers over. Or they can take Bush to court.

What liberals are going to demand to open opportunity look at any president's papers?

The Kennedy papers are guarded by the denizens of the Kennedy library like nuclear weapons.
Try to find an unflattering quote or expletive deleted related to his Presidency.

I'd be happy if Barr, Rohrabacher, Cox, and Burton were to form some kind of investigative team to look those papers over. I imagine democrats would want to join in of course. If not, they can sue. And one thing is for certain, Judicial Watch will sue if not given access, no doubt. And Bush will snub JW like always. There will be a law suit, initiated by a conservative.

And you don't see that much among democra-ticks.

Are the Kennedeys grandfathered?

This is a good decision...

Why should subjects be allowed to see the papers of their masters?

What liberals are going to demand to open opportunity look at any president's papers?

With regard to Reagan, half the DNC, led by Take-the-Fifth-Kit Waxman, the Vampire Lantos, Wild-Waters, Steel Vault Conyers, and Waddler-Nadler. I suppose Barney-Homo-Cat-House Frank will want to team up as well.

You know unless there is a massive break-in and looting, no one is ever going to see anything interesting from the Clinton papers. If they were all released tomorrow it wouldn't make any difference.

Since there is a concerted effort to destroy Reagan's memory by the press, one would think you could understand the point of this. They were waiting like circling vultures for those papers to be released so that they could find anything they could twist into an attack on Reagan and the conservative movement.

You may wish to provide ammunition to the enemy. I don't.

The enemy must always have more ammunition to destroy/brainshwash the general public/uneducated as to the true creator of our economic revolution. Whether Reagan is dead, alive, incapacitated, the attacks will never cease, they can't. To give him credit for what he did is to destroy the founding principles of their politics.

The "sensitive" nature may include documentation regarding covert actions inside foreign nations; our preparedness for bio-chemical attack or nuclear attack; our ability to sustain attacks against certain types of warfare, or our means of securing our leaders during periods of attack against this Nation.

Or, more likely, they contain documented evidence that Reagan did know of the arms for hostages deal and committed perjury. Or that Bush Sr. was actually "in the loop." Or that the CIA was running drugs in order to prop up the contras. But now, thanks to that "conservative" Dubya, we'll never know.

Transparency is a critical element to a thriving democracy. If the feds have the right to extort 35 percent of our nation's productivity in order to mismanage the largest pension fund and HMO in history, then we have a right to see what kind of leaders they are.

The only reason to withhold these documents is the Iran-Contra affair, the same reason that George Sr. picked that idiot Dan Quail as his running mate, so no one would dare try to investigate the matter and possibly impeach him and wind up with an air head as president. It isn't so much what Reagan did, as what Bush Sr. did that is being protected. Bush Sr. showed how much he loved the United States when he took Quail as his running mate: perhaps the most cynical, dangerous, and downright anti-American political maneuver of the twentieth century. But for the grace of God, Quail never became president. The son is looking far greater than the father, so far. And I can't blame him for protecting his dad. I would do the same.