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Registration deadline approaching!!!
 
Former U.S. Attorney General/leading Presidential historian to speak in
Albany-based government accountability conference
 
Former U.S. Attorney General and Governor of Pennsylvania Richard
Thornburgh and nationally prominent Presidential historian Richard
Norton Smith will join a group of leading attorneys, members of the
media, and past and current government officials in a two-day event
designed to explore the importance of preserving the correspondence and
official records of governors and other elected public executives from
local mayors to high federal officials.  
 
The program, entitled Documenting Leadership: A Symposium on Public
Executive Records in the 21st Century, is sponsored by the New York
State Archives Partnership Trust and the Albany Law School’s
Government Law Center and will be held on the Albany Law School campus,
New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY, May 20-21.
 
Panel sessions will include: Public Policy and the Public Interest;
Transparency, Executive Records, and the Media; Executive Records:
Access and Disclosure; Access in the Digital Age; and Executive Records
as Legacy.
 
Governor Thornburgh’s keynote is entitled The Legacy of an Executive:
A Governor’s Perspective.  Historian Richard Norton Smith will deliver
an address entitled Telling the Executive Story: The Thrill of the
Chase.
 
The event is free and open to the public and will include a May 20th
reception at the Governor’s Mansion.  For more information and to
register, go to www.albanylaw.edu/executiverecords/.
 
Deadline for conference and Governor’s Mansion registration is
Monday, May 17th. 

Best wishes,
Emily Allen


Media and Education Specialist
New York State Archives
Archival Services
Public Programs and Outreach
9B31 CEC
Albany, NY 12230
(518) 473-9984
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