presidential libraries

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• SOURCE: Politico
  7/22/2022
  

  Is Trump the New Nixon? The Young Custodian of the Nixon Library Would Rather Not Say

  Jim Byron, the CEO of the Richard Nixon Foundation, is the unofficial guardian of the former president's legacy, having worked his way up in the organization after starting as a teenaged summer intern. 

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• SOURCE: Curbed
  12/9/2020
  

  Absolutely No One Wants to Buy Trump’s Childhood Home

  The current owners of the former Trump family home in Queens set up a GoFundMe to allow supporters to purchase the property at $3 million to give to Trump as a legacy project. So far it has raised $125. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/18/2020
  

  Trump’s Presidential Library Will Be A Shrine To His Ego

  by Paul Musgrave

  If former presidents aren't interested in hosting official presidential papers at a library center, there is little oversight of how they tell the president's story. Any future Trump presidential center will likely not function as a library at all, but as a propaganda organ for Trumpism. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  11/16/2020
  

  Will Trump Burn the Evidence?

  by Jill Lepore

  Reckoning with the Trump adminstration's actions and assigning moral or criminal sanction to any misdeeds will probably be compromised by the destruction or failure to maintain presidential records. 

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• SOURCE: Associate Press
  9/23/2020
  

  Dear Donald, Dear Mr. President: A Trump-Nixon ’80s tale

  Letters between Donald Trump and Richard Nixon in the 1980s, recently released by the Nixon Library, show the two men bonded over themes that resonate today: a shared distrust of the media, a desire to maximize TV ratings, the idea of using people as “props,” and more.

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• SOURCE: AP
  8/17/19
  

  Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum gets grants to help publish Abraham Lincoln papers

  The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has received more than $400,000 in grants for a project that aims to publish every document written by the nation's 16th president.

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• SOURCE: The Economist
  4/25/19
  

  Why presidential libraries are controversial

  Barack Obama’s is dividing opinions, as others have before.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/9/19
  

  Obama’s Presidential Library Is Already Digital

  by Dan Cohen

  The question now is how to leverage its nature to make it maximally useful and used.

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  3/2/19
  

  Barack Obama’s Presidential Library Is Making a Mockery of Transparency

  by Anthony Clark

  The leader of the “most transparent administration in history” has been anything but transparent when it comes to plans for his presidential center.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  2/25/19
  

  Obama Makes It Harder to See the Arc of History Bend

  by John Gans

  My old boss’ post-presidential center is a missed opportunity.

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• SOURCE: NY Times Magazine
  2/20/19
  

  The Obama Presidential Library That Isn’t

  President Obama unveiled the plans for the Obama Presidential Center in May 2017. He said he wanted a place that “looked forward, not backward, and would provide a place to train future leaders.”

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• SOURCE: The Jamestown Sun
  12-8-2018
  

  North Dakota governor wants to spend $50 million to build Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library

  It’s "North Dakota’s Mount Rushmore.”

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• SOURCE: WSJ
  8-10-18
  

  The Obama Center Can Afford More Than $1 Rent

  by Mark Glennon

  It’s a political ‘institute,’ not a presidential library. So taxpayers shouldn’t be paying for anything.

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• SOURCE: Western Journal
  1-11-18
  

  Obama Library Will Not Include a Copy of His Birth Certificate – Or Any Other Paper Docs

  Everything will be digitized.  

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• SOURCE: Special to HNN
  1-26-17
  

  Robert Huddleston recalls how the first director of the LBJ Library was recruited

  by Robert Huddleston

  How LBJ arranged for directors to get a higher pay grade. 

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• 1-26-16
  

  What You Don’t Know About Presidential Libraries – And the Scandalous Way in Which They Are Operated

  by Anthony Clark

  New legislation would require disclosure of donations, but leave the rest of the broken system unregulated.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-8-14
  

  At the LBJ Presidential Library, Giving Nuance to History

  “It is all here: the story of our time — with the bark off."--LBJ

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2-19-14
  

  Obama and His Library: Go Small

  by Witold Rybczynski

  A presidential library is a very big building, but does that mean that it should also be monumental?

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12-16-13
  

  Obama’s Library, Advisers’ Dream

  Obama's library plans begin!

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• 10-3-13
  

  One Hundred Years to Open All the Presidents’ Records?

  by Anthony Clark

  Records from the Clinton Library show then-Associate White House Counsel Kagan's key role in drafting legal policy.