In defending NARA, the Justice Department argued that NARA doesn’t have “a duty to engage in a never-ending search for potential presidential records” that weren’t provided to NARA by the president at the end of his term. Nor, the department asserted, does the Presidential Records Act require NARA to appropriate potential presidential records forcibly. The government’s position was that Congress had decided that the president and the president alone decides what is a presidential record and what isn’t. He may take with him whatever records he chooses at the end of his term.
NARA are clerks. I bristle at them being called librarians. Their claims are the equivalent of the guy at the storage rental facility when you bring in two boxes to store and they say "where's the rest of your stuff?" Zero authority, anyone with brains understands that.
This is the interesting part of the article:
NARA are clerks. I bristle at them being called librarians. Their claims are the equivalent of the guy at the storage rental facility when you bring in two boxes to store and they say "where's the rest of your stuff?" Zero authority, anyone with brains understands that.
There has never been any serious controversy about these things.
The President is the CHIEF EXECUTIVE.
Everyone in the Executive Branch WORKS FOR HIM.
He chooses to delegate portions of his authority to various agencies to carry out HIS ORDERS due to the sheer volume of work he is responsible for.
If there is ever any controversy about what is to be done - HE WINS.
Harry Truman kept a plaque on his desk saying: "The Buck Stops Here."
That is the legal and constitutional FACT.