Pius XII Memorial Library Government Documents

Web 2.0 has taken hold at Whitehouse.gov as the web site moves to reliance on Drupal (?) open source code for the underpinnings.

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Considering the 1000+ page  length of the America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009 and America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 bills currently being considered by Congress it is interesting that the Executive branch is now spinning an Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder explanation…
From Whitehouse.gov
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Seems like just yesterday it was 2005.  And if you visit the National Archives via GPO it is only 2005 in George Bush years.  Indeed, the Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States series is stuck in time, awaiting the “codification” of the last the Bush years.  But then I guess we already [...]

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Need the “scoop” on the latest Presidential flap (or pseudo flap)?   Media Resources is the place to go.    Although it is reminiscent of 43’s   “Setting the Record Straight“  it appears to be somewhat less defensive.

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The Unclassified Report on the President’s Surveillance Program has been released — let the investigations begin.  And if there is an aspiring director out there who wants to produce the next “All the President’s Men” here is the contact at the CIA –the Entertainment Industry Liaison.

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So much can change in 25 years.  President Ronald Reagan giving it up for Michael Jackson as he honors him for “…proof of what a person can accomplish through a lifestyle free of alcohol or drug abuse.”  The entire remarks are on pages 693 and 694, of the Public Papers of the Presidents, Ronald Reagan, [...]

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Oh to be a fly on the wall  during presidential meetings — looks like the wish has come true to the tune of 154 hours of Nixon banter. Recorded during 1973 these new tapes augment the more than 2300 hours previously released.  In total (according to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, the National Archives, and nixontapes.org) [...]

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Senator Coburn from Oklahoma is adamant — “What if you want to drive a gas hog? You don’t have the right any longer in this country to spend your money to drive a gas hog?”  This from a  TV station interview.
This gem is in reponse to the increase in CAFE standards proposed by the President.  [...]

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The infamous Bush torture memos have been released and it seems that water boarding (NYT link) was just one of the heinous methods used to elicit information from captives. But since this started I have wondered why the following statement from 100 years ago was not circulated more widely …

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Revisionists rejoice (or not)– President Herbert Hoover’s own words on the Great Depression in 1933… via NARA
Following a conversation with Senator Simeon Fess on 2/20/33, Herbert Hoover wrote Fess to record his analysis of key events and developments during the first five periods of Depression. Hoover’s letter was written during the darkest days of his administration. [...]

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