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n. ~ a federal
law (44 USC 2201-2207) passed in 1978 that governs the management of
official records created or received after January 20, 1981, by
presidents, vice presidents, and related staff of the United States
of America
Related Terms
National Archives and Records Administration, presidential library,
presidential record
Note
The act made the public the legal owner of the official records of
the president, which were formerly private records, and established a
new statutory structure under which presidents must manage their
records and the National Archives and Records Administration controls
and provides access to the records after the end of each president’s
term.
Category
Law, Records Management
Cited in
Geselbracht, Raymond H., “The Origins of Restrictions on Access to
Personal Papers at the Library of Congress and the National Archives,”
The American
Archivist 49:2 (Spring 1986): 160.
Bearman, David, “The Implications of Armstrong v. Executive of the President
for the Archival Management of Electronic Records,” The American Archivist
56:4 (Fall 1993):
675.
Brown, Matthew G., “The First Nixon Papers Controversy: Richard
Nixon’s 1969 Prepresidential Papers Tax Deduction,” Archival Issues
26:1 (2001):
10.
Montgomery, Bruce, “Presidential
Materials: Politics and the Presidential Records Act,”
The American
Archivist 66:1 (Spring/Summer 2003):102.
Jimerson, Randall, “Archives for All: Professional Responsibility
and Social Justice,” The
American Archivist 70:2 (Fall/Winter 2007): 256.
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