Just before dawn one summer day in Washington, America's president stripped naked on a rock by the river, plunged in and saw a dead man float to the surface.
PoliticsFILE - Archivist of the U.S John Carlin stands behind a 1947 Harry Truman presidential diary, July 10, 2003, at the National Archives in Washington. Presidents from George Washington to Joe Biden have kept presidential diaries. In them, they confide in themselves, express raw opinions, trace even the humdrum habits of their day and offer insight-on-the-fly on monumental decisions of their time. It's where they may also spill secrets they shouldn't.
The hearing is bound to touch on the ample history of presidents who left office with documents containing state secrets, even after the 1978 Presidential Records Act mandated that the government hasof all presidential and vice presidential records. The act was just one part of a reformist clean-up of government from Richard Nixon's corrupt presidency.
“There is evidence that, after his vice presidency, Mr. Biden willfully retained marked classified documents about Afghanistan and unmarked classified handwritten notes in his notebooks, both of which he stored in unsecured places in his home,” Carter dictated entries to his diary and had them typed by a secretary. Returning to Plains, Georgia, after his presidency, Carter realized he had 21 large volumes of double-spaced text, excerpts of which became a book.
Those episodes are rarer in the scripted, polished and controlled enterprise of the modern American presidency, under any recent president not named Trump.
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