Presidents should be REQUIRED to keep a journal/diary..

Look at all that we know about the founding fathers....hundreds of years after they died.

The minutiae of their lives, contemporaneously jotted down in letters or diaries helps them stay "alive" to us all..

I know that we have a plethora of electronic recordings of our modern presidents, but we rarely ever really "know" them until after their letters & personal stuff comes out after their deaths..

In fairness to them, I even think it would be OK to keep those diaries under lock & key until after their deaths, but it's a crying shame to think that some of the most interesting people in the world feel the need to NOT write anything down..

Writing memoirs after they leave office, is not the same either, since they have the power then to reflect and omit..or to edit.

If a president does something illegal, and his own words do him in, then so be it.. Perhaps that might be reason to NOT break the law..

And to subpoena a presidential diary, there should have to be a very very very good reason....not just a curious fishing expedition.

Wouldn't you want to know what P-E Obama's true feelings were that night he won?...even if you had to wait decades?

and we all can see W is a terrible speaker....I wonder what his text would look like....