克林顿总统记录11月24日新开放114705页:最大一份是内阁事务档案67377页

美国国家档案与记录管理局(NARA)发出正式通知,拟新开放一批克林顿总统记录。这批记录共115,434页,已经按《信息自由法》豁免条款完成审查,其中729页全部或部分限制查阅,其余114,705页定于11月24日开放。
拟开放的最大一份是副内阁秘书Stephen Silverman的档案,共67,377页,拟开放67,032页。Silverman于1993年至1998年在内阁事务办公室任职,这批档案涉及北美自由贸易协定、1996年夏季奥运会、联邦紧急事务管理署、国家服务、医疗、联邦预算、教育与交通等议题,形式包括信函、备忘录、电邮、报刊文章、报告、日程、新闻稿、电话记录与手写笔记。
个人档案还包括总统顾问Ann Lewis的档案13,564页,拟开放13,233页。Lewis先任白宫传播副总监与传播总监,1999年3月至2001年1月任幕僚长办公室的总统顾问,她的档案涉及堕胎、平权、儿童照护、教育、医疗、人口贩运、政治策略、种族关系、国情咨文、社会安全与妇女平等等议题。另一份是政府间事务副主任Emily Bromberg的2,007页档案,全部开放,内容包括1998财年预算与减税、儿童医疗与教育、移民、互联网税收与烟草等简报材料。
白宫记录管理办公室的主题档案占了这批开放的另一大块。教育类档案19,100页,拟开放19,088页,涉及教育预算、学生贷款、启蒙计划与历史性黑人院校等。科学类档案6,508页,拟开放6,487页,涉及气候变化、全球变暖、人类基因组测序、严重天气雷达、超导超级对撞机与《京都议定书》等。农业类档案4,665页全部开放,退伍军人类档案2,213页,拟开放2,193页。
这份编号为PA 2026-115的通知由国家档案馆档案运营部于8月27日发出,按《总统记录法》同时送达现任总统与克林顿前总统的代表Bruce Lindsey。按法律规定,档案馆将在通知发出60个工作日后,也就是11月24日开放这批记录,除非前任或现任总统申请一次性延长30个工作日,或主张宪法特权。通知全文已在国家档案馆网站公开。
(来源:美国国家档案与记录管理局)
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)
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图片来源:图片来源:Wikimedia Commons「William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park 2016」(CC BY-SA 4.0),图中为位于Little Rock的克林顿总统中心 Image: Wikimedia Commons, "William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park 2016" (CC BY-SA 4.0), showing the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock
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