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Escorting a Presidency into History: NARA's Role in a White House Transition
URL: http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2008/winter/transitions.html

Description:
This article describes an "unheralded job" of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA): "planning for the transfer of hundreds of millions of textual, electronic, and audiovisual records, [and gifts]." For the George W. Bush administration, this transfer takes place "at exactly 12 noon on January 20, 2009." Describes history of such transfers to NARA (beginning in 1939 with Franklin D. Roosevelt) and the creation of presidential libraries. From the NARA Prologue magazine.

LII Topics: 2008-2009 U.S. Presidential Transition, Presidential Libraries, The United States Presidency

Author:
Smith, Nancy Kegan

Publisher:
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

Extra Keywords
Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas

LII Database Information:
Record 27756 created by Maria Brandt on 01/14/2009
Last modification on 01/19/2009
Published: 01/21/2009  
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27756

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