Word: hershberg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...found it easier to get top-secret documentson the H-bomb than it was to getinter-departmental correspondence at Harvard,"says James G. Hershberg '82, author of a recentbiography on former Harvard president James BryantConant...
...Hershberg says that while the ClintonAdministration is forcing government agencies toshow why documents should be kept from the public,Harvard puts the burden of proof onresearchers--who must prove that certain documentsshould be opened...
...Hershberg says the nature of the FBI'srelationship with Harvard during the McCarthy erais just one of the issues that cannot be fullyexplored because of the 50-year rule...
...Hershberg's biography grew out of hisundergraduate thesis, which he submitted in 1982.When he resumed his research for the biography,Hershberg was able to convince Harvard to make anexception to the 50-year rule and give him limitedaccess to papers of Conant that did not relatedirectly to the University...
...Hershberg says the 50-year rule kept him fromConant's papers from during and after World WarII. He says he found the rule most frustratingwhen he attempted to research Conant's role as "aCold War educator" between...