114,705 Pages of Clinton Presidential Records to Open Nov. 24; Cabinet Affairs Files Are the Largest Set
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has issued a formal notice of its intent to open a new batch of Clinton Presidential records. The records total 115,434 pages, reviewed for all applicable Freedom of Information Act exemptions. Of those, 729 pages are restricted in whole or in part, and the remaining 114,705 pages are scheduled to open on November 24.
The largest single set is the files of Stephen Silverman, who served as Deputy Cabinet Secretary in the Office of Cabinet Affairs from 1993 through 1998. His files total 67,377 pages, with 67,032 proposed for opening, and cover the North American Free Trade Agreement, the 1996 Summer Olympics, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, national service, health care, the federal budget, education and transportation. They include correspondence, memoranda, emails, newspaper and magazine articles, reports, schedules, press releases, telephone logs and handwritten notes.
The personal files also include those of Ann Lewis, Counselor to the President in the Office of Chief of Staff from March 1999 to January 2001, after serving as White House communications director. Her 13,564 pages, with 13,233 proposed for opening, touch on abortion, affirmative action, child care, education, health care, human trafficking, political strategies, race relations, the State of the Union, social security and women's equality. The 2,007 pages of Emily Bromberg, Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Affairs from 1995 to 1998, will open in full, covering briefing material on the fiscal 1998 budget and tax cuts, children's health care and education, immigration, internet taxation and tobacco.
Subject files kept by the White House Office of Records Management make up another large share. The education file runs 19,100 pages, with 19,088 proposed for opening, covering education budgets, student loans, the Head Start program and historically Black colleges and universities. The science file runs 6,508 pages, with 6,487 proposed for opening, covering climate change, global warming, human genome mapping, severe weather radar, the Superconducting Super Collider and the Kyoto Protocol. The agriculture file, 4,665 pages, opens in full, and the veterans file runs 2,213 pages, with 2,193 proposed for opening.
The notice, numbered PA 2026-115 and dated August 27, was sent under the Presidential Records Act to both the incumbent President and Bruce Lindsey, representative of former President Clinton. By law, NARA will release the records 60 working days from the date of the letter, November 24, unless the former or incumbent President requests a one-time extension of 30 working days or asserts a constitutionally based privilege. The full notice is public on the National Archives website.
(Source: National Archives and Records Administration)
Source: National Archives and Records Administration
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