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Anyone can access most federal agency records under the 1966 Freedom of Information Act. Over the years, however, some library buffs have taken it upon themselves to liberate certain documents. After Brooklyn artist Charles Merrill Mount attempted to sell a collection of rare Civil War manuscripts including three Lincoln letters to a Boston bookstore in 1987, suspicious staffers alerted the Feds. Mount was arrested, and a search of his Washington safe-deposit box revealed some 200 Civil War-era papers, mostly pilfered from the National Archives. Before releasing him on bail, a U.S. magistrate barred Mount from the Archives...
...though, was apparently not much of a deterrent. In 2002, Archives employee Shawn Aubitz was sentenced to 21 months in prison for stealing, among other documents, 71 pardons signed by 10 presidents. Virginia antiques dealer Howard Harner got two years in 2005 for walking off with more than 100 Civil War-era documents from the Archives; fewer than half have been found. That same year, Sandy Berger, Bill Clinton's former National Security Adviser, was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and fined $50,000 for filching five copies of classified documents from the National Archives shortly before...
...following year, a 40-year-old National Archives intern stole 160 Civil War documents-including an official announcement of President Lincoln's death-and sold about half of them on eBay. Possible motivation? He told his psychiatrist he was angry the internship was unpaid...
...Dorothy Height. I mean, every time I see this woman - 93, 97, I don't know how old she is, but she's over 90 - and she is just as engaged substantively in the work of changing the lives of people as she was when she worked in the civil rights movement. She is in her wheelchair, scooted up to the table, coherently, clearly, concisely articulating the values of today in the same way she did 40, 50 years ago. I hope that I'm that cogent at her age and able to travel around the country and around...
...thinking about those kids who are missing opportunities by a hair, by a breath, by a parent, by a teacher, by a dollar amount, and I'm kind of working to make up some of that difference to the extent that I think I can." (See pictures of the civil rights movement from Emmett Till to Barack Obama...