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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Source: The Economist

4/25/19

Why presidential libraries are controversial

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

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.

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.

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.

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.”