Sunday, September 26, 2004

2006 will be a fun year

2006 is going to be a fun year for historians and possibly for the rest of us, as well. Why? 20 million emails from the Clinton years will become available to researchers. Seeing these emails will be fascinating on so many levels. First, since this is the first major email administration, it will be interesting to see if people used email without thinking of the lasting record they were making. Second, this is going to shed a lot of light on the inner working of the Clinton administration. I'm sure that by 1998 or 1999, political CYA had been learned by everyone in the administration, but I'm willing to bet there is some good stuff from the mid 1990's. Thirdly, I anticipate a fair amount of comic relief mixed in there.

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