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Vote:   | After assuming the Hutchins Center presidency, I brought onto its then-predominately liberal Board of Directors several distinguished American conservative and moderate leaders in order to try and achieve bipartisan and ideological balance. |
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Vote: | As Archivist, I will enforce the laws regarding access to public records at all times and instances to the very best of my ability. |
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Vote: | As I stated in my investiture remarks on March 7, I have long supported Presidential libraries and very much look forward to the Nixon Library being a part of the NARA system. |
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Vote: | At these meetings, mostly I have listened and opened lines of communication; if confirmed, I would continue to strengthen mechanisms of consultation with these and other stakeholding groups. |
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Vote: | But we will lose the millions of records being created daily in a dizzying array of electronic forms unless we find a way to preserve and keep them accessible indefinitely. |
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Vote: | Currently, we own two Level IV Federal buildings and more than 10 Level III buildings for which we contract for security. |
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Vote: | Finally, a passion for working on archives or records management is obviously essential to performing NARA's mission successfully. |
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Vote: | For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the evolving historic saga of the American people. |
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Vote: | I have met with the heads of over a dozen archival and historical organizations and with a number of other influential figures involved in NARA-related activities seeking dialogue and not endorsements. |
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Vote: | If confirmed as Archivist, I would undertake both an initial set of briefings by NARA's management team and other senior staff and another by key NARA stakeholders to gain their assessments of current systemwide challenges and priorities. |
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Vote: | In March 1984, I became President of the Santa Barbara, California-based Robert Maynard Hutchins Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. |
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Vote: | In short, I have been working hard and steadily to keep open communication with many concerned NARA stakeholders and, as Archivist, will try to engage all segments of NARA's constituent communities both in and out of government. |
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Vote: | In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history. |
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Vote: | NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings. |
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Vote: | NARA publishes the Federal Register each Federal business day. |
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Vote: | NARA's essential operations nationwide must be capable of functioning in the event of a local or national crisis. |
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Vote: | Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory. |
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Vote: | On a personal note, as the son of pre-World War I Russian-Jewish immigrants, if confirmed, I would view my work as Archivist as an optimal way of giving back to this great country a small measure of what the United States of America has given to me and my family. |
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Vote: | Research promoted by NARA within a major coalition of Federal and private sector research partners has at last demonstrated that an Electronic Records Archives can be built. |
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Vote: | The allegation that I or the Directors supporting me had deliberately avoided payment on a Santa Barbara hotel booking is false. |
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Vote: | The Archivist of the United States essentially works for the American people across partisan lines and not, regardless of which Administration nominates the person, for a particular President or political party. |
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Vote: | The Archivist of the United States works for the American people, indifferent to partisanship regardless of which political party dominates the Congress or the Executive branch of Government. |
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Vote: | Then as now, whatever disagreements over policies existed among Americans - and there were many such bitter policy disputes - the purposes and goals for which Americans fought were clearly understood. |
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Vote: | Therefore, the Archivist must display at all times a devotion to the laws and principles governing the responsibilities of his office. |
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Vote: | This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents. |
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Vote: | This is a critical juncture for NARA. |
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Vote: | Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office. |
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Vote: | To address these concerns, one of my important goals, if confirmed as Archivist, would be to maintain an open dialogue with all of NARA's key stakeholders and partners, and since my nomination in April, I have attempted informally but vigorously to reach out to many of these groups. |
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Vote: | We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education. |