John Dean:
The Problems With Bush’s Executive Order Burying Presidential Records: ‘More troubling than the Order’s throwing a monkey wrench into the process of releasing Presidential papers, however, is the President’s penchant for secrecy. Secrecy provokes the question of what is being hidden and why.

If President Bush continues with his Nixon-style secrecy, I suspect voters will give him a Nixon-style vote of no confidence come 2004. While secrecy is necessary to fight a war, it is not necessary to run the country. I can assure you from firsthand experience that a President acting secretly usually does not have the best interest of Americans in mind. It is his own personal interest that is on his mind instead.’ FindLaw