The "full and complete Clinton" White House site was transformed into the
"not much substance yet Bush" White House site at 12:05 on Saturday along
with the change of administration. You can see what has been archived at
NARA at this address: http://www.clinton.nara.gov/
There has been much discussion of this topic on GOVDOC-L, about this
particular site and also about the potential impact of a changing
administration on agency websites as well. The web didn't exist in the same
form the last time we had a change of government, so this is a novel
experience for all of us.
Anne
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Anne Myers
Head of Technical Services
Boston University Law Library
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Ph: 617-353-8877 Fax: 617-353-5995
Email: amyers@bu.edu
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From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu]On Behalf
Of Grady, William H.
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 11:00 AM
To: 'law-lib@ucdavis.edu'
Subject: State of the White House Web Site
In the first change of administration in the White House in the Internet
era, what happened to the full and complete Clinton www.whitehouse.gov site
as it existed, say, last Friday? It looks to me like the new administration
has simply purged the whole of the preexisting site and replaced it with the
embryonic new Bush site.
Does anyone know what happened to the Clinton White House site? Is it
available at all today in any form?
I hope that this is not a harbinger of changes to come on all the other
government websites.
It does make the absolutely most classic example of the transient nature of
the Web to answer anyone who views the Web as the be all and end all of
research. You wonder if Gore, who, of course invented the internet, would
have done the same thing.
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