President George W. Bush has assented to participate in the Miller Center’s ongoing presidential history project, The Daily Progress reports. Every president since Carter has been interviewed—along with hundreds of administration officials—for their Presidential Oral History Program, which has used that extraordinary level of access to create an extraordinarily in-depth treasure trove of information for historians present and future. (For instance, here’s Zbigniew Brzezinski talking about President Carter (253k PDF) back in 1982.) The Miller Center is willing to go to great lengths to get answers of the utmost honesty and frankness: they’ll embargo interviews until the subject’s death, or even until the death of the subject and his family. And if they believe that an interview subject isn’t being honest, they’ll kick him out, rather than taint the record with inaccurate information. Chronicling each president takes many years, so they should stay busy with Bush for a long time to come.
Sideblog
- Reality having become insufficiently entertaining for media outlets in Karnataka, India, they've settled for fabricating a crazy-ass story about Charlottesville. #
- Colorful former Greene County Sheriff William Morris has died in an apparent suicide. #
- Media General turned a profit in 2009 Q4. #
- Gabe Silverman is paving his rutted, dusty Amtrak parking lot. #
- There's an unfolding story today of the remains of a female found on a farm in Red Hill, suspected strongly to be Morgan Harrington. #
- Darden isn't the only local school using Kindles: Burnley-Moran third graders are using 'em, too. #
- Peter Van der Linde has settled the RSWA's lawsuit against him for $600,000. #
- Those red light cameras are still planned for 250/20 and Rio/29, slated for installation in August. #
- There are a couple of nice new pedestrian bridges on the Rivanna Trail, part of the expansion of the city's network of trails. #
- Scottsville is trying to expand into Fluvanna County. #
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