Escorting a Presidency into History: NARA’s Role in a White House Transition

National Achives ^ | 2008 | Nancy Kegan Smith

[lonestar67]

The long season of presidential primaries is over, the fall campaigns have rushed by, and the voters have decided who is to be the next President of the United States.

As the new presidential administration prepares for its inauguration on January 20, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is busy with another one of its unheralded jobs—planning for the transfer of hundreds of millions of textual, electronic, and audiovisual records, and tens of thousands of presidential and vice presidential gifts.

It's something that happens every four or eight years—and sometimes when it's least expected.

NARA is assisting in the presidential transition by ensuring the safe, smooth, and timely move of presidential and vice presidential records and artifacts from the outgoing George W. Bush administration into the legal custody of the National Archives at exactly 12 noon on January 20, 2009.

[lonestar67]

This is an old article from the National Archives on the transition of documents during the GWB/Obama transition.

The casual easy nature of this betrays the outrageous psychodrama of the current archives ACTIVISTS who called out the FBI to got get "their papers" at Mara lago. This case study and article makes it rather clear that this some sort of set up or Trump must have been standing at the White House doors with a gun and armed guards as he squealed away from the White House residence with purloined documents.

[Albion Wilde]

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