Before the Presidential Records Act of 1978, presidents owned their papers. Now, as Donald Trump has learned, they must turn them over to the National Archives.
On Aug. 22, former president Donald Trump's lawyers asked a federal court to appoint a special master to review the documents the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago.
Washington bequeathed his papers to a nephew, Supreme Court Justice Bushrod Washington. The justice loaned many of the documents to Chief Justice John Marshall, who was writing a biography of the first president. The nephew later lamented in a letter to James Madison that Marshall had stored some papers where they were “extensively mutilated by rats and otherwise injured by damp.”the two had exchanged.
President Chester A. Arthur hated the idea of journalists prying into his affairs. The day before his death in November of 1886, “he instructed his son to destroy” his presidential papers, the congressional researchers wrote. “Three large garbage cans were used to burn up the bulk of the Presidential papers.”
“There would have been nothing preserved if I had not taken some things out on my own responsibility,” Clark said. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Library released on Aug. 1 several films showing scenes from the 32nd president’s private life.
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