![]() 'Some of the items are of a sensitive nature and reflect our position with other governments,' Carter said, 'so they probably won't be declassified for many years. He said more than 5 million documents related to his presidency are still classified, but officials are working hard to declassify as many as possible. 2 and is expected to take 14 months.Ĭarter said the library will house 29 tractor-trailer loads of records from his White House years. ![]() Rosalynn Carter recently published a book of her own, 'First Lady From Plains,' and she said she used some of the diary notes in preparing her book.īut the former president said neither the general public nor scholars would have access to the diary when the Carter Library opens at Emory University. Since leaving office, Carter has published 'Keeping Faith, Memoirs of a President' and has a second book, 'Blood of Abraham,' due out next spring. White House Diary By Jimmy Carter (Farrar Straus and Giroux 570 pages 30) The presidential diary has grown into a genre - and, lately, a lucrative one. 'In fact, he wrote his books from that diary.' 'He has volumes of notes that he brought back with him to Plains,' she said. ![]() 'And he kept a tape recorder on his desk so he could talk into it. We were trying to get to Camp David to rest from the trip, but Fritz called and said that Senator Humphrey was on the verge of death. 'Jimmy kept a diary every day - he is a note taker,' Rosalynn Carter said. ![]()
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