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- <text id=93TT1043>
- <title>
- Mar. 01, 1993: Doing Bush a Favor
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 01, 1993 You Say You Want a Revolution...
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 11
- NATION
- Doing Bush a Favor
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Did the U.S. Archivist trade his signature for a job?
- </p>
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- <p> There must be something juicy on the more than 4,000 White House
- computer tapes George Bush has fought so hard to control. In
- January a federal judge barred the White House from erasing
- the tapes and criticized Don Wilson, the Archivist of the U.S.,
- saying he breached his legal duty by failing to ensure that
- the records were preserved. On the last night of the Administration,
- Wilson nonetheless signed a document giving Bush exclusive legal
- control of all presidential information on the tapes--although
- under federal law, control of presidential material is supposed
- to remain with the government. At the time Wilson was under
- consideration for a $114,000-a-year job as head of the George
- Bush Center at Texas A & M University, a post he has subsequently
- taken. Wilson said he played "no role" in drawing up the document
- brought to him by government lawyers with the assurance that
- it was "proper and legal." Said a Senate staff member: "Poor
- Don Wilson. They held a pen to his head."
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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