Subverting open government : White House materials and executive branch politics / Bruce P. Montgomery.
"An unprecedented 1974 U.S. Supreme Court ruling declared that former president Nixon did not have the absolute and unreviewable privilege to withhold presidential communications, thus forcing him to turn over to the special Watergate prosecutor the very documents that destroyed his presidency....
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Lanham, Md. :
Scarecrow Press,
2006.
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-219) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Nixon's quest to monopolize history -- The Kissinger transcripts -- The Presidential Records Act : a refuge from the FOIA -- Nixon haunts the Presidential Records Act -- Cheney and the Energy Task Force Records. | |
| 520 | 1 | |a "An unprecedented 1974 U.S. Supreme Court ruling declared that former president Nixon did not have the absolute and unreviewable privilege to withhold presidential communications, thus forcing him to turn over to the special Watergate prosecutor the very documents that destroyed his presidency. The passage of the 1978 Presidential Records Act (PRA) established public dominion over White House materials beginning with the Reagan presidency. The PRA represents but one of many cornerstone statutes in the flurry of post-Watergate legislative measures passed by Congress to ensure a more open and accountable government. | |
| 520 | 8 | |a Subverting Open Government addresses these major themes under various presidential terms from the Reagan years to the second Bush administration, including publicity and secrecy, legislative and executive branch conflict over presidential materials, and historical legacy versus open government."--Jacket. | |
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