--- description: Will be closely watched for impact on Hillary Clinton's potential 2016 candidacy title: Bill Clinton Library Releases Documents image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04259ac02cd2f0e7/6986836613c79f1d13190ce4/ap292373512323.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Presidents](/tag/presidents/) ## Presidents Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Clinton Library Releases Trove of Documents  by [Denver Nicks](/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 28, 2014 6:08 PM CUT  Former President Bill Clinton speaks about health care at the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 4, 2013. Former President Bill Clinton speaks about health care at the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 4, 2013.Danny Johnston—AP  by [Denver Nicks](/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 28, 2014 6:08 PM CUT Thousands of pages of documents from former President Bill Clinton’s time in office that had been [previously withheld](http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2014/02/clinton-library-to-make-first-release-of-withheld-184166.html?hp=f3 "undefined") from the public were released Friday afternoon. The documents are part of a larger trove of 33,000 pages that have remained unavailable to the public despite the fact that the legally permissible period to withhold them—12 years from the end of the Clinton presidency—expired last January. It remains to be seen what the documents released Friday will add to the body of knowledge about Clinton’s presidency. But they will be closely watched for any impact they could have on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s possible presidential run in 2016. The larger trove of documents contains information relating to the Whitewater investigation and Clinton’s attempts at health care reform, _Politico_ reports. Some of the records come from the office of then-First Lady Hillary Clinton. In all, 25,000 of the 33,000 pages have been cleared by attorneys for release, with no decision yet made on the remaining 8,000\. It remains unclear why the documents remain unavailable to the public 13 months after the 12-year period came to an end. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/10648/bill-clinton-hillary-library-documents-2016/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/10648/bill-clinton-hillary-library-documents-2016/"},"headline":"Clinton Library Releases Trove of Documents","datePublished":"2014-02-28T18:08:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:31:12.672Z","description":"Will be closely watched for impact on Hillary Clinton's potential 2016 candidacy","url":"https://time.com/10648/bill-clinton-hillary-library-documents-2016/","keywords":["Presidents","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","White House","Bill Clinton"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04259ac02cd2f0e7/6986836613c79f1d13190ce4/ap292373512323.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Denver Nicks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04259ac02cd2f0e7/6986836613c79f1d13190ce4/ap292373512323.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Bill Clinton","caption":"Bill Clinton","creditText":"Danny Johnston—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/presidents/","name":"Presidents"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/10648/bill-clinton-hillary-library-documents-2016/","name":"Clinton Library Releases Trove of Documents"}}]}] ```