After President Nixon resigned over Watergate, people wanted reform. Unelected President Gerald Rudolph Ford, on advice of staffers Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and then-lawyer Antonin Scalia of DoJ, vetoed the Freedom of Information Act in 1974.
The House and then the Senate overrode the veto.
As a freshman at Georgetown University, I was proud to be the intern who carried Ted Kennedy's triumphant speech on the Senate override of the veto of the Freedom of Information Act to the U.S. Senate press galleries on November 21, 1974.
Forty years later, our governments, from our City Halls to our state capitals to Washington, D.C., still mess with your Right to Know. Enough.
Enough flummery, dupery and nincompoopery.
Enough waste, fraud and abuse.
Enough misfeasance, malfeasance and nonfeasance.
Enough coverups.
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