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Bush Budget Funds Archives Transfer to Nixon LibraryThe 2007 budget submitted by President Bush February 6 includes $10.6 million toward conversion of the privately funded Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, California, to a presidential library run by the National Archives and Records Administration.If Congress approves the proposal, $6.9 million will go for a new wing for the facility and $3.7 million for National Archives staff to process 46 million pages of documents from Nixon’s presidency, the Los Angeles Times reported February 8. The material was seized by the government when Nixon resigned in 1974, and Congress subsequently passed a law requiring that the records remain in the Washington, D.C., area. “This is a magnificent and amazingly helpful gesture by the Bush administration to help put President Nixon and his legacy in line with the other presidents,” Nixon Library Executive Director John Taylor told the Times. The facility, the only privately run presidential library, currently holds only Nixon’s pre- and post-presidential papers. Once it is upgraded to meet government standards, the National Archives will ask Congress to authorize it as an official presidential library. The 46 million pages of documents, along with 350,000 photographs, 4,000 videotapes, 2.2 million feet of film, 4,500 official White House recordings, and 950 secret recordings, will be transferred to the library in stages through 2010, the Times reported. Posted February 10, 2006. |
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