Purely coincidental, I hadn't been been thinking of the NARA Federal Register 
notices  and didn't remember this was happening today.  

Newly declassified Nixon records released today (11/16/05) by NARA, see
http://nixon.archives.gov/news/current_release.html .  These include 
Kissinger's office files and National Security Council files.

Links and extracts from initial news items follow:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-11-16-nixon-papers_x.htm
HEADLINE: "Documents show Nixon deception on war in Cambodia"
WASHINGTON (AP) — 
Extract:  "Even after Richard Nixon's secret war in Cambodia became known, 
the president persisted in deception. 'Publicly, we say one thing,' he told 
aides. 'Actually, we do another.' 

Newly declassified documents from the Nixon years shed light on the Vietnam 
War, the struggle with the Soviet Union for global influence and a president 
who tried not to let public and congressional opinion get in his way. 
    
They also show an administration determined to win re-election in 1972, with 
Nixon aides seeking ways to use Jimmy Hoffa to tap into the labor movement. 
The former Teamsters president had been pardoned by Nixon in 1971. 

The release Wednesday of some 50,000 pages by the National Archives means 
about half the national security files from the Nixon era now are public. . . ."
Click on link above for rest of article

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/16/politics/16cnd-nixon.html
HEADLINE:  "National Archives Release Papers From Nixon Administration"
Extract:  "White House advisers convene secret sessions on the political 
dangers of revelations that American troops committed atrocities in the war zone, 
and whether the president can delicately intervene in the investigation. In 
the face of an increasingly unpopular war, they wonder at the impact on support 
at home. The best way out of the war, they agree, is propping up a new 
government that can attract feuding elements across a fractured foreign land. . . . "

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/16/politics/main1048993.shtml
HEADLINE:  "Nixon Admin. Fretted Israel Nukes"
Extract:  "The collection draws heavily on national security files during the 
Vietnam War, arms control negotiations with the Soviets, and the intense 
superpower competition for influence in the Middle East and beyond. 

Documents are thick with minute aspects of the ebb and flow of progress in 
Vietnam, showing growing worries about the ability of the South Vietnamese 
government years before it fell, but also seeking encouragement wherever it could 
be found. . . " 

More stories on Thursday and in days to follow, I'm sure, this is what has 
hit the wires as of the release today, 11/16/05.

Maarja

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