Word: forde
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ford says the committee, which also includedthen-Secretary to the Corporation Robert Shenton,heard testimony from students and professors,including Krupp Foundation Professor of EuropeanStudies Charles S. Maier. Efforts to reach Maierwere unsuccessful...
...students came to testify to the committeebelieving that the archives should be much moreopen," Ford says. "But after they testified andanswered questions from the committee, they hadchanged their perspective...
...Ford says the committee agreed that theUniversity should be flexible in grantingexceptions to the 50-year rule. For example, Fordsays he would like to see the release ofadministration papers from the period of campusunrest in April 1969, when Ford himself came undersharp criticism from students and faculty...
...Ford acknowledges that it will still behard for historians to secure access topresidential and Corporation papers...
...closer you get to real power, especiallywith the people who come in as outsiders, there'smuch more of a tendency to not make exceptions, togive categorical responses," Ford says...