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[Karen Medina]

A talk happening right now! (noon, Tuesday February 3, 2009; University YMCA)
How future historians will judge the Bush Presidency

Speaker	 	
Scott Althaus, Professor, Political Science and Communication, UIUC
And Kalev Leetaru, Cline Center for Democracy, UIUC
 	 	 	
 	Date	 	Feb 3, 2009
 	 	 	
 	Time	 	12:00 pm
 	 	 	
 	Location	 	Latzer Hall, University YMCA
 	 	 	
 	Sponsor	 	University YMCA
 	 	 	
 	Contact	 	Ann Rasmus
 	 	 	
 	E-Mail	 	ann at universityymca.org
 	 	 	
 	Phone	 	(217) 337-1514
 	 	 	
 	Event type	 	Lecture
 	 	 	
 	Original Calendar	 	Know Your University Lecture Series at the University YMCA

 	

How future historians will judge the Bush Presidency remains to be
seen, but one thing is certain: they won't have all the facts needed
to make that judgment. One legacy at risk of being forgotten is the
way the Bush White House has quietly deleted or modified key documents
in the public record that are maintained under its direct control. The
Bush White House seems to have systematically airbrushed parts of the
official record regarding its own history. How extensively White House
documents have been rewritten is anyone's guess, but research by
Althaus and Leetaru show that extensive revision of the historical
record has occurred to the official list of countries making up the
Coalition of the Willing that supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq.