New Batch of Clinton Documents Released

By DAVID S. JOACHIM APRIL 18, 2014

WASHINGTON — The National Archives on Friday released its largest batch yet of previously withheld documents from the Clinton administration, with topics including the conflicts in Somalia and Rwanda, Middle East peace negotiations, the Oklahoma City bombing and public figures like Richard M. Nixon, Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey.

The bundle that is likely to receive the most attention, though, is one that covers Hillary Rodham Clinton’s ill-fated attempt as first lady to overhaul the health care system. Mrs. Clinton, who ran for president in 2008, is considering a second attempt in 2016.


The roughly 7,500 documents — consisting of memos, transcripts, speeches and emails — were posted by theClinton Presidential Library.


Three previous batches totaling about 10,000 documents were released in February and March. Highlights included chronicles of Mrs. Clinton’s struggles to overhaul health care and define her political identity in the years before she became a senator, presidential candidate and secretary of state, and of the administration’s scrambles after the Republicans won control of the House in 1994 and after the Monica Lewinsky scandal began to envelop the White House in 1998.


More of the 33,000 or so previously undisclosed documents are to be released in the coming weeks.


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