Question for Sam Donaldson of ABC

Stump the newsman! Former CEO of ConEd George B. Cortelyou (some at the National Archives have posited that he was the first White House Press Secretary, but I will not further that since they left out Dee Dee Myers in their purview) held three Cabinet posts under McKinley and Roosevelt (would be 4 today) once taught shorthand in NYC schools before becoming Chairman of the Republican Party (or GOOP grand old oily party) and died at "Harbor Lights" in Huntington, NY, was a secretary first. Sam, are many historical documents, important to say for example the Spanish American War, for example, still "hidden" in shorthand because no one has taken the trouble to translate them, now perhaps "lost" to American heritage? (my cousin George Murray, a eulogy read by Edwin Newman at the UN Chapel, directed "Huntley and Brinkley" when he as a film cutting editor filled in for the sick director, I was told. Viva la Signal Corps. Live long and prosper.)