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Sunday, November 11, 2007

Clinton no open book on healthcare

National | By Peter Nicholas | November 11, 2007
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Friday, November 9, 2007

The talk of the Reagan library

California | Local | By Steve Chawkins and Catherine Saillant | November 9, 2007
A lavish gala was to kick off a display of Nancy Reagan’s ball gowns Thursday night, but visitors to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library near Simi Valley were buzzing more about the landmark’s record-keeping problems – lapses so severe that National Archives officials are unable to say whether gifts to the Reagans have been stolen or are lost inside the massive museum complex. Read more
 

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Amazon, National Archives in deal

Business | August 1, 2007
The public will be able to purchase copies of thousands of historic films and videotapes via the Internet under an agreement the National Archives has reached with Amazon.com Inc. Read more
 

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Nixon’s library to go by the book - An exhibit telling his version of Watergate is the first to go as the National Archives takes over the facility.

California | Local | By Christopher Goffard | July 8, 2007
The Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace in Yorba Linda has long been the most kicked-around of presidential libraries, and nothing invited more ridicule than the dim, narrow room purporting to describe the scandal that drove its namesake from office. Read more
 

Friday, March 16, 2007

Stolen Civil War items sold on EBay

National | March 16, 2007
An intern with the National Archives stole about 165 Civil War documents – including the War Department’s announcement of President Lincoln’s death – and sold most of them on EBay, prosecutors charged Thursday. Read more
 

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Unable to Repeat the Past

Business | By Charles Piller | September 13, 2006
Carter G. Walker remembers the day her memories vanished. Read more
 

Thursday, April 27, 2006

U.S. Wrongly Resealed Third of Files, Audit Says

National | April 27, 2006
The government improperly sealed hundreds of previously public CIA, Pentagon and other records by reclassifying them as secret on questionable grounds, an internal review by the National Archives determined. Read more
 

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

National Archives Agreed to Documents Coverup

National | April 12, 2006
The National Archives agreed to seal previously public CIA and Pentagon records and to keep silent about the role of U.S. intelligence in the reclassification, according to an agreement released under the Freedom of Information Act. Read more
 

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

First Federal Nixon Library Head Is Named

California | Local | By Christopher Goffard | April 11, 2006
As the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace readies itself for a shift into federal hands, the National Archives announced Monday that it had selected a Cold War historian and expert on presidential recordings as the library’s first federal director. Read more
 

Wednesday, February 8, 2006

Nixon Library Could Get a Lift in 2007 Budget

California | Local | By Jean O. Pasco | February 8, 2006
The 2007 federal budget that was sent to Congress this week includes $10.6 million for the privately funded Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace in Yorba Linda to begin its transformation into a presidential library run by the National Archives. Read more
 

Friday, April 1, 2005

Berger Expected to Plead Guilty

National | By John Hendren | April 1, 2005
Samuel R. “Sandy” Berger, President Clinton’s national security advisor, has agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of removing classified documents from the National Archives, a Justice Department official said Thursday. Read more
 

Saturday, March 19, 2005

Nixon Library Makeover to Add Unvarnished Truth

California | Local | By Kimi Yoshino | March 19, 2005
In an effort to gain legitimacy as an official presidential library, the privately run Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace has agreed to present exhibits that are “more strictly factual” and turn over control of more of Nixon’s papers and tapes to the National Archives. Read more
 

Saturday, February 26, 2005

Nixon’s Papers Could Be Delayed

California | Local | By Jean O. Pasco | February 26, 2005
The transfer of Richard Nixon’s presidential papers and tapes to his library in Yorba Linda could be delayed because the federal budget includes no money to move or house them. Read more
 

Friday, November 12, 2004

Airing out the vaults

Entertainment | By Johanna Neuman | November 12, 2004
There are home movies of Ronald Reagan as a lifeguard at age 16 and Bill Clinton as a child, and immigration papers from Greta Garbo, Alfred Hitchcock and Secretary of State Colin Powell’s father, Luther. Read more
 

Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Snipping at Nixon History

California | Local | By Scott Martelle | October 12, 2004
Sometime in the very near future, Bill Cowell will hunker down in front of a bulky 25-year-old tape player in a nondescript cubicle at the National Archives, clap on a headset and, guided by codes on a sheet of paper, find a precise spot on a thin, brown ribbon to mark with his grease pencil. Read more
 

Thursday, September 9, 2004

Constitution: The Movie

News | September 9, 2004
The National Archives, guardian of the Constitution and other historic originals, is opening a state-of-the-art theater as part of an interactive museum designed to lure more visitors to the researchers’ haven. Read more
 

Thursday, July 22, 2004

Storm Over Berger Intensifies on Eve of Sept. 11 Report

National | By Richard B. Schmitt and Matea Gold | July 22, 2004
Republicans and Democrats traded political shots Wednesday over the disclosure that former national security advisor Samuel R. “Sandy” Berger removed classified documents from the National Archives last summer. Read more
 

Friday, October 10, 2003

An Opportunity to Gaze Down the Paper Trail of American History

California | Local | By Bob Pool | October 10, 2003
There were gasps – and some guffaws – as Los Angeles residents got a close-up peek Thursday at historical documents that mark some of this country’s most important moments. Read more
 

Sunday, September 21, 2003

Magical History Tour

Magazine | By Mark Edward Harris | September 21, 2003
Like many in the crowd, Kelly Bellanger could scarcely believe what she read in the museum case. Read more
 

Tuesday, April 2, 2002

1930 Census Forms Give a Snapshot of History

News | April 2, 2002
June Hall moved her finger down the page, found her grandmother’s name and smiled. Read more
 
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