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Historical Records at Liberated Text is the place where we are planning to mark-up many documents. At the present time, they are all related to American History, broken into three main categories:
Currently, the content is a bit light. Check back now and then to see what is new.
Update? - Finally, History at Liberated text has begun to populate its Con.Founders section. A working draft of a complete project has been published, as well as two individual references; one, a letter by by Thomas Jefferson, and the second, a letter by John Quincy Adams, written when he was Secretary of State in the Adminstration of James Monroe.
Update of the Iran/Contra Report Archive. All Chapters of Part V-The Flow of Funds: The Prosecution of the Private Operatives are now complete and online.
Iran/Contra Report - Chapter 31: Edwin Meese II, has now been published. Work continues on it at a slow pace.
Meanwhile, a new section is has entered into planning and design: It is titled "The Con.Founders", and will consist of documents germane to the topic of the creation of the American Government, which the editors feel are worthy of the time and effort needed for them to be edited and marked-up up for publishing on this site. That without a doubt means Jefferson, as well as Madison, even though their works can easily be found already upon the web. It also means some of the lesser known fiery patriots; Thomas Paine, and Samuel Adams come quick to this editor's mind.
Work towards completing the Walsh Iran/Contra Report mark-up continues slowly. Decisions about standardizing the left division navigation tables for each page have pretty much been completed. The CSS for the archive needs only some minor tweaking, mostly color palette changes. All files online were validated using the W3C html online validator, and validated cleanly. A complete table of contents linkable at the section level for each page is complete for all pages online, and can be viewed at the Archive's Entry Point.
Chapter 1 of the Walsh Iran/Contra Report is not online, and there have been changes made to the Robert M. Gates Iran/Contra Chapter. This is the beginnings of an intent to mark-up the whole Iran/Contra Report in an easy read format. Presently, javascript must be enabled to view, as a no-javascript alternative style has yet to be worked out.
The Final Report Of The Independent Counsel For Iran/Contra Matters
Mr. Bush's recent nomination to replace Donald Rumsfeld, Robert M. Gates has a long history of government service. One document of that history was felt worthy of inclusion here at Liberated Text: Chapter 16: Robert M. Gates; from The Final Report Of The Independent Counsel For Iran/Contra Matters
Recently, the NSA Archives, located at George Washington University released to the public a voluminous body of Henry Kissinger's notes and memorandums from his days as an appointive government officer in the Nixon and Ford Administrations. Kissinger had fought to keep these documents secret until five years after his death. A cursory reading of just a few of the documents transparently exposes why the former Secretary of State would rather be long dead before this history had become public.
The NSA Archives has placed 20 documents in PDF format for download directly from their site. One that caught our eyes instantly was a secret meeting in Peking with the Chinese Prime Minister, Chou en-Lai, on June 20, 1972. That date has extra relevance, when one considers that it was one month later that Jane Fonda made her infamous trip to Hanoi, which she has been vilified for over three decades. It was also in the midst of Richard Nixon's re election campaign, and whose Democratic opponent was a vocally antiwar Senator from South Dakota, George McGovern.
Kissinger's statements, transcribed in the document, give great credence to the historical theory of Nixon's "Decent Interval" strategy in Vietnam, which posits that he had seen the inevitable end of the South Vietnamese government early during his first Administration, but did not act aggressively to disengage from the lost cause to until after his re election in 1972. What Nixon and Kissinger sought from the North Vietnamese was a 'decent interval; between America's disengagement, and their take-over of the Saigon government. They acted without the knowledge of the USA's official allies in South Vietnam. Treachery, plain and simply.
An online exhibit also offers illumination into the machinations of this one of the many; Nixonian DarkEvils:
Liberated Text has taken the NSA Archive provided file, Dr. Henry Kissinger's meeting with Chou en-Lai, June 20, 1972, and marked up a partial transcription containing the part germane to America's disengagement from Vietnam to html. It is pages 27 - 37 of the aforementioned document, and can be viewed on our site.
