Among the documents now properly in the Archives' possession are letters between Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un.
this retrieval, noting that among the documents now properly in the Archives' possession are letters between Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un, and the letter that President Barack Obama left at the White House for Trump in January 2017.
"The Presidential Records Act mandates that all Presidential records must be properly preserved by each Administration so that a complete set of Presidential records is transferred to the National Archives at the end of the Administration," Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero said in the statement."NARA pursues the return of records whenever we learn that records have been improperly removed or have not been appropriately transferred to official accounts.
"The Presidential Records Act is critical to our democracy, in which the government is held accountable by the people," Ferriero said."Whether through the creation of adequate and proper documentation, sound records management practices, the preservation of records, or the timely transfer of them to the National Archives at the end of an Administration, there should be no question as to need for both diligence and vigilance. Records matter.
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