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The Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978, 44 U.S.C. §§ 2201–2209, [3] is an Act of the United States Congress governing the official records of Presidents and Vice Presidents created or received after January 20, 1981, and mandating the preservation of all presidential records.
Under the Presidential Records Act, ... The other living former president, Jimmy Carter, signed the PRA into law in 1978, but it did not apply to records from his administration.
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 ...
According to the Presidential Records Act of 1978, "any documentary materials relating to the political activities of the president or members of the president's staff, but only if such activities ...
The Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014 (Pub. L. 113–187 (text)) is a United States federal statute which amended the Presidential Records Act and Federal Records Act. Introduced as H.R. 1233 , it was signed into law by President Barack Obama on November 26, 2014.
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 ...
Until 1978, presidents, scholars, and legal professionals held the view dating back to George Washington that the records created by the president or his staff while in office remained the personal property of the president and were his to take with him when he left office. The first presidential libraries were built on this concept.
The Archives sent a letter Thursday to representatives of former presidents and vice presidents extending back to Ronald Reagan to ensure compliance with the Presidential Records Act, according to ...