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National Archives head resigns as Trump takes control of records (www.motherjones.com)

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Sources name conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt and far-right journalist John Solomon as potential replacements.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago

When it caught fire a couple years ago they had to pay people to sort thru soggy half burnt pieces of paper trying to find any identifiable markings to rebuild records. It wasn't archived anywhere except those pieces of paper.

So large parts of it up to 1980s maybe even 90s is just gone already.