Furthermore, a FOIA request may not be filed for a presidential record until five years after the president has left office. Nevertheless, there was disappointment among the plaintiffs for the NSC records are critical to understanding the development of national security policy and there will be no only less access to these records but also less protection against the possibility of inappropriate destruction. Prior to Blunt's election to the House in 1996, he had been an instructor at Drury College in Springfield Missouri from 1973 to 1983 and served from 1985 to 1993 as Missouri Secretary of State. He was President of Southwest Baptist University from 1993 to 1996. The letter has gained broad bipartisan support with 135 signatures.
Indications are more members are planning to sign it.
Nazi Gold Report on State Department's Web Page. As a part of this effort, almost one million pages of U.S. records have been declassified and transferred to the National Archives, including previously unavailable OSS, Army, State, Treasury and Justice Department records. The National Archives has prepared and published a guide to the relevant records at the National Archives. Our mandate from President Clinton, Eizenstat said, was to describe to the fullest extent possible, U.S. and Allied efforts to recover and restore gold and the initially valiant but ultimately inadequate steps taken. H-Net subscribers are invited to redistribute the NCC reports.