In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history.

He served as the Archivist of the United States from February 16 2005 until his resignation on December 19 2008. He chaired the annual "Global Panel" in the Netherlands from 1993 to 1998. He is Chairman of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library's Advisory Council.

He served as the Archivist of the United States from February 16 2005 until his resignation on December 19 2008. Allen Weinstein (born September 1 1937) is an American historian educator and federal official who has served in several different offices. After his resignation he returned to the International Foundation for Electoral Systems as the election organization's senior strategist and to the University of Maryland as a history professor.