print email comment close Escorting a Presidency into History: NARA's Role in a White House Transition URL: http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2008/winter/transitions.html Description: This article describes an "unheralded job" of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA): "planning for the transfer of hundreds of millions of textual, electronic, and audiovisual records, [and gifts]." For the George W. Bush administration, this transfer takes place "at exactly 12 noon on January 20, 2009." Describes history of such transfers to NARA (beginning in 1939 with Franklin D. Roosevelt) and the creation of presidential libraries. From the NARA Prologue magazine. Author: Smith, Nancy Kegan Publisher: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Extra Keywords Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas LII Database Information: Record 27756 created by Maria Brandt on 01/14/2009 Last modification on 01/19/2009 Published: 01/21/2009   LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27756