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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
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<body>
<p>Did the U.S. Archivist trade his signature for a job?
</p>
<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."
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</body>
</article>
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