On 3/13/02, George W. Bush held a press conference, of which the transcript was posted on the white house website for many years. Bush had been questioned about the whereabouts of bin laden; and among other things, Bush replied: "I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him" (that's a direct quote). It was here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html With a new administration I checked to see if this White House URL still worked. it is gone, and now the original url takes you to this url
http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing_room/
Question: Are all white house press conferences/ transcripts from all previous administrations scrapped when a new admin. takes over? Are they stored anywhere else at that point, perhaps a govt archive site, or disappeared down the memory hole forever?
Thanks for any tips on this matter. The clip is still on youtube by the way. Grab it while you can.