More than 11,000 pages of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s schedules as first lady, records sought by a conservative watchdog group and journalists, will be released on Wednesday, the National Archives announced Tuesday.
The quest for public disclosure of the schedules has attracted close attention throughout the presidential campaign, partly because Mrs. Clinton has held up her years at the White House as evidence of her experience.
The records to be released Tuesday amount to virtually all of her schedules of meetings, speeches and the like as first lady. They are being released in response to a suit brought under the Freedom of Information Act by the conservative group, Judicial Watch. The National Archives has explained the delay in making them public by arguing that the vetting process takes time.
The Archives said in a statement Tuesday that the records, to be released both in Washington and in Little Rock, Ark., the site of the Archives-administered Clinton Presidential Library, were from the staff files of Patti Solis Doyle, Mrs. Clinton’s former campaign manager, who was her chief White House scheduler.
“Arranged chronologically, these records document in detail the activities of the first lady, including meetings, trips, speaking engagements and social activities for the eight years of the Clinton administration,” the statement said.
Of the 11,046 pages to be released, 4,746 pages have redactions, mostly relating to “the privacy interests of third parties,” including Social Security numbers and home addresses, the Archives said.
