The Audacity of Art at the Obama Presidential Center
Barack and Michelle Obama commissioned 30 artists to create work for their campus, which starts visitor previews next week on the South Side of Chicago.
It Is Happening Every Day, Every Where
Barack and Michelle Obama commissioned 30 artists to create work for their campus, which starts visitor previews next week on the South Side of Chicago.
The former senator from Florida is now the head of four government bodies. He has outdone Henry Kissinger and even Xi Jinping, China’s leader, who has only three titles.
As the Trump administration pulls government websites and data offline, it is selectively stripping away the public record, letting the president declare his own version of history, archivists and historians said.
The Presidential Records Act and the Federal Records Act require officials to preserve communications related to government business.
The thousands of documents posted online this week disappointed assassination buffs. But historians are finding many newly revealed secrets.
Newly unredacted documents reveal details about Cold War spycraft, not a second gunman on grassy knolls. The revelations have “nothing to do with who killed Kennedy,” one expert said.
The request, which comes on the heels of an executive order by President Trump, represents a sharp reversal for the F.B.I. and the department.
The president said more than 80,000 pages would be disclosed, with no redactions, which he allowed in 2017. An estimated 99 percent of the records are already public.
Mr. Trump did not provide additional details on what the trove of files would include, but he has long promised to release them unredacted.