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The files could revive questions about the friendly relationship Donald Trump had with Bill and Hillary Clinton. | AP Photo Clinton Library set to release Donald Trump records

Former President Bill Clinton’s presidential library is set to make public nearly 500 pages of records pertaining to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, according to an official notice from the National Archives.

The records will detail the Clinton White House’s interactions with Trump and his Trump Organization, as well as how Clinton aides prepared to field questions about Trump’s entry into the 2000 presidential race, where he sought the nomination of the Reform Party for a few months before dropping out.

The files could revive questions about the friendly relationship Trump had with Bill and and Hillary Clinton before Trump launched his presidential bid last year and began taking a withering line against the Clintons.

“The Clinton Presidential records proposed for opening consist of email concerning birthday notes sent from President Clinton to Mr. Trump. Email also includes references to his campaign for President in 1999,” reads the Jan. 14 notice from the archives, which oversees the presidential records stored at the Clinton Library. “Also present is a printed database entry concerning Trump’s invitations to White House events, a photograph of President Clinton with Donald Trump at Trump Towers in New York, an autographed copy of Mr. Trump’s book The Art of the Deal, and briefing materials for press events that include media questions about Mr. Trump’s possible run for the presidency in 2000.”

The 464 pages of records were prepared in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from Buzzfeed's Christopher Massie of Buzzfeed, an archivist said Thursday. Another request back in 2011 for correspondence from Trump to Clinton or his aides yielded no records, according to the requester and an archivist.

By law, a current president or former president involved has 60 business days to review the records and consider a possible assertion of executive privilege. Barring such a development or a request for an extension, the records should be available to the public beginning in April.

UPDATE (Thursday, 10:40 P.M.): This post has been updated to identify Massie.