Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Presidential Records Act was enacted in 1978 after President Richard Nixon sought to destroy records relating to his presidential tenure upon his resignation in 1974. The law superseded the policy in effect during Nixon’s tenure that a president’s records were considered private property, making clear that presidential records are owned ...
The Presidential Records Act, Navarro’s lawyers told the court, does not allow the National Archives “to invade a former employee’s privacy to force the compelled production of Presidential ...
Revelations of a roughly eight-hour gap in official records of then-President Donald Trump's phone calls on the day of last year's insurrection at the U.S. Capitol are raising fresh questions ...
The bill prohibits the president, the vice president, or a covered employee (i.e., the immediate staff of the president and vice president or office advising and assisting the president or vice president) from creating or sending a presidential or vice presidential record using a non-official electronic messaging account unless the president ...
A lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges that President Trump violated the Presidential Records Act and the Federal Records Act by “intentionally failing” to keep written accounts of meetings with ...
Chronology of White House E-Mail Controversy National Security Archive, The George Washington University, April 17, 2008. Presidential Records Act (PRA) U.S. National Archives and Records Administration - Description of the records that must be retained by the President.
He is allowed to take personal items, like diaries and family photos. But most of the papers and memos — and especially classified documents — are sent to the National Archives under the Presidential Records Act. The 1978 law requires the preservation of presidential documents as property of the U.S. government. It was passed in the ...
The Presidential Records Act of 1978 expanded such protection of historical records, by mandating that the records of former presidents would automatically become the property of the federal government upon their departures from the Oval Office, and then transferred to the Archivist of the United States, thereafter to be made available to the ...