Right wing but non-Trumpist rag Bulwark had a article on the National Archives recently, that was a great refresher of how our nation and how our parties carry (or not) our nation's legacy forward. <a href="https://www.thebulwark.com/p/nations-archivist-should-not-be-political-nara-national-archives-records-administration-shogan-wilson-weinstein-trump" rel="nofollow">https://www.thebulwark.com/p/nations-archivist-should-not-be...</a><p>The Iran-Contra tapes show up, as an element of history that we nearly lost, that the illegally-political operative running the Archives tried repeatedly to let get deleted.<p>Trump administration has been no stranger to destroying history. Their read outs for meetings with foreign officials were just the most absurd hokey fake abbreviated read outs last term. <a href="https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/foia/2019-05-07/white-house-failure-document-heads-state-meetings-violates-records-law" rel="nofollow">https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/foia/2019-05-07/white-house-f...</a><p>I cant stand what this sham of a government is doing. But that they use illegal communication channels like Signal to hide what they are doing, to avoid making the lasting record of history, that we the people are denied the democratic necessity of looking at and assessing what's happened: that absolutely makes my blood boil. Such denial of democracy, such hiding and cowering from history is the act of people with no pride, with no dignity, who knows they bring nothing good to America.