Mr. Bush's library in College Station, Texas will release 797 pages of records dealing specifically with Saudi Arabia. Volumes were over the past two decades about the close relationship between the Bush family and Saudi royal family.

Mr. Reagan's library in Simi Valley, Calif., will open 244,966 pages of records processed in response to hundreds of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, including some 13,000 pages of declassified records on foreign policy.

HORSE CORRAL

We had to laugh as Sam Kazman, general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and CEI senior fellow Eli Lehrer contemplated how the Preakness Stakes might escape Maryland [-] much in the manner the once-beloved Baltimore Colts football team sneaked out of the state under the cover of darkness.

To recap, a bill is being considered by the Maryland legislature that would attempt to seize the Preakness Stakes, the second race in the Triple Crown of thoroughbred racing, under the power of eminent domain, giving the state ownership of the host Pimlico Race Track, as well as the trophy, name and other properties associated with the preakness.

“Like the Baltimore Colts, the preakness ought to bolt,” said Mr. Kazman, who admitted "while there may be no problem transporting the horses, physically moving the track might be a bigger problem.”

“I’d suggest that the owners of Pimlico dismantle the track piece-by-piece, load it onto some trucks," offered Mr. Lehrer.

NEEDED MORE AIR

The previous item, while true, reminds this columnist of the time in 2004 when the Chinese newspaper Beijing Evening News reporting that the U.S. Congress was threatening to move out of Washington unless the U.S. Capitol was modernized with a retractable roof.

The embarrassed writer, Huang Ke, copied the entire story from The Onion, not realizing it was a satirical newspaper.