That drew criticism that the aides were trying to evade the 1978 Presidential Records Act, which requires presidential administrations to keep records of deliberations, decisions and policies, including e-mail messages from official accounts.
The argument revolves around the confusing and inconclusive records of deliberations in Churchill's cabinet in May and June 1940 over whether Britain should discuss peace terms with Germany, records over which historians have argued for the 30 years that they have been available.
People deliberating on an action usually have reasons to do more than one thing, and they are very seldom in the habit of leaving a written record of their deliberations.
It's very clear from this record of the deliberations that rock-bottom rates are in our crystal ball for an "extended period".
The result, a kind of diary of a divided mind, serves as both a record of that deliberation and an insurance policy against an adverse outcome, by guaranteeing that Heti's struggle to understand and obey the mandate of her soul will end, either way, in a birth, even if what is born is made of ink and paper rather than of flesh and blood.
4 documents to show that it had not deliberately misled Congress, but that it would not turn over records of internal deliberations after that.
The recent publication in the United States of "The Tiananmen Papers," said to be secret records of leaders' deliberations as they decided to use military force to halt the demonstrations, was cited by Mr. Jiang and other top leaders at the meeting as a deliberate Western effort to split the party, the officials said.
The file does not record the final outcome of deliberations but a letter from Charles Powell, Thatcher's private secretary in Downing Street, recorded the outcome of a further, senior ministerial summit on chemical weapons in August that year.
Though there is no official record of the Court's internal deliberations, scholars of the decision — notably Michael J. Klarman, a professor of law and history at the University of Virginia — have been able to reconstruct what went on through the justices' conference notes and draft opinions.
Though there is no official record of the Court's internal deliberations, scholars of the decision notably Michael J. Klarman, a professor of law and history at the University of Virginia have been able to reconstruct what went on through the justices' conference notes and draft opinions.
Besieged by lawsuits that threatened to engulf almost everyone at the White House, Clinton assistants shunned paper or e-mail records of their daily deliberations.
