Question: If a president locks up documents for, say, 50 years...

[Frustratedlady]

is there any way the next or subsequent presidents can order those records opened before the end of that 50-year period?

I see major games of hide and seek in our future, before or at the end of this administration. Can Poppa's records, that favored son hid, be opened?

[unblock]

1. any president can reverse previous executive orders

but not reverse law without congress's help.

[knowbody0]

2. i do not understand why locking any records

would be logical or lawful. this is OUR nation. these things affect US

[bahrbearian]

3. "YOU CAN'T HANDEL THE TRUTH"

[knowbody0]

5. thank you for reminding me

now it's time to eat worms again.

[Donnachaidh]

7. there are already in place laws to lock up the census

I think that is 75 or 80 years. And I have no idea why, I've always been told it falls under *privacy*.

In this day and age with such aggressive marketers, it should be left alone.

But presidential records? No way. That, if anything at all, is why we should be pushing like madmen to get a Dem in office. We desperately need to review everything this administration has done -- EVERYTHING.

That should be the very FIRST thing done, if we win. Open the records up to lawyers AND the press.

And I know it won't ;-{

[knowbody0]

9. welcome to DU

we can hope, and we can demand.

[kenny blankenship]

4. The next Dem. POTUS should unlock ALL the records of preceding POTUSi

Of course if we are ever allowed to have a Democratic President again that person will mostly likely be only a ringer, a sworn and beholden tool of the same Fascist shadow state that put Bush where he is.

[blm]

6. They CAN be opened by a president with the will to do so - That is why I

will continue to fight to have the one president I KNOW believes in open government and open books - John Kerry.

Clinton hurt this country and the world beyond measure when he chose to keep the books closed on BushInc.

[Stinky The Clown]

8. Sunshine has an amazing ability to cleanse ......

... whether it is your recently washed bedding hanging on a line in the backyard or the papers of former adminsitrations.

These secrecy orders can be reversed.

Let the sun shine on everything.