Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton cites her experience as a compelling reason voters should make her president, but nearly 2 million pages of documents covering her White House years are locked up in a building here, obscuring a large swath of her record as first lady.
Clinton’s calendars, appointment logs and memos are stored at her husband’s presidential library, in the custody of federal archivists who do not expect them to be released until after the 2008 presidential election.
Asked how long it might be before Hillary Clinton’s records are released, the library’s chief archivist said it could take years.
What records that have been made public offer tantalizing details about Hillary Clinton’s White House years. One memo reveals details about the “war room” for the healthcare plan. Aides wrote of the need for secrecy, but also presented Hillary Clinton with arguments she could make that the process of drawing up a healthcare plan was “the most open in the history of the federal government.”
Or maybe not so much.
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