In a message dated 8/21/2006 12:18:37 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
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Date:    Sun, 20 Aug 2006 16:40:02 EDT
From:     [log in to unmask]
Subject: Nixon tape segments (lawyers, Pentagon Papers, etc  Earlier  in  the 
week, in response to Ginny Jones's  comment about the code of ethics, I 
mentioned some released Nixon  tapes.  These segments showed President Nixon 
expressing frustration that  lawyers were reluctant to work in areas where he 
thought things needed to be  done.  And pressing his subordinates to take  action...

Thanks for posting these extraordinary records snips, Maarja. It is so easy  
to get so caught up in the technology, standards, processes and professional  
aspects of recordkeeping in our list, conference and journal discussions, that 
 we forget what it is all about. We need occasional citations of real records 
 like those you posted to remind us what major parts accountability and 
social  memory constitute in everything else we discuss on the list. 

 
Regards,

Rick

Rick Barry
_www.mybestdocs.com_ (http://www.mybestdocs.com/) 
Cofounder, Open  Reader Consortium
_www.openreader.org_ (http://www.openreader.org/) 

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