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The Obama decision does not address the consequences of another executive order that George W. Bush signed on November 1, 2001. That order gave former presidents and former vice-presidents, and their families after they die, the right to continue preventing the release of their papers. Not only that, but, according to Bush’s executive order, even if an ex-president wants to release his papers to the public, the sitting president has the right to bar their release anyway.