Almost 148 years ago a group of women and men founded the American Library Association, resolving "to enable librarians to do their present work more easily and at less expense."

What is that work, and how is that establishing resolution relevant to Dickerson's execrable bill?🧵

https://twitter.com/bypiperhutch/status/1772445401670463833

43 years before that resolution, the town of Peterborough, NH opened the first free library that a municipality funded, and which was available to everyone, regardless of class.

No more would the gift of reading be limited to those who could afford their own private books.

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I can't state this clearly enough: Cannon's jury instructions, at (b), nullify the Presidential Records Act. Null and void.

And—perhaps even more alarming—support Trump's unsupportable contention that the records in question are presidential, and so fall under PRA.

A 🧵:

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https://twitter.com/anthonyjclark/status/1769854613396897888

Cannon claims, falsely, that PRA grants POTUS the authority to decide whether a record is presidential or personal.

It does not.

The heart of the PRA—the very reason for its existence—is to remove this choice from POTUS.

Before Nixon, presidents owned those records.

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Quick thread about the Carter Library: of the 13 federal presidential libraries, it's the only one that doesn't have a private foundation "supporting" it, using it for political purposes, taking advantage of a government institution for its own aims.

Jimmy & Rosalynn raised

1/ the money to build it but didn't maintain an entity once that was done. They put their efforts and focus into the Carter Center, looking outward, giving, healing the world, rather than looking inward, taking, celebrating themselves.

Unlike the 12 other presidents and first

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An analogy to understand the #PresidentialRecordsAct:

Say, in the course of your work, you create or receive two kinds of documents: External and Internal.

External are from or to customers, suppliers, advertisers, shippers—anything external.

Internal are, well, internal.

1/ "External" documents represent all of your work and communications outside the organization. They reflect anything for which you bill or are billed. Products, contracts, ad campaigns, payables/receivables—anything that goes to or comes from someone outside of your business.

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An ongoing thread about the #PresidentialRecordsAct that I'll update to whack-a-mole the latest lies & disinformation.

Under the PRA, outgoing presidents may not take <any> presidential or agency records with them. Those belong to the American public, and NARA preserves them.
1/ I usually don't put this fine a point on my tweets but I'm a nonpartisan expert. I wrote a book and have published many articles about it. I ran oversight of NARA and #PresidentialLibraries for the US House. I am regularly interviewed and quoted. I care about this.
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