the national archives. today, as we gather in this rotunda, we remember and honor the lives lost. on september 11th, a solemn of our resilience of as a nation and the enduring power of unity and compassion. everyone today has played a role in supporting me and the national archives. and i appreciate each of you for your friendship and for support. it is the honor of a lifetime to serve as the 11th archivist of the united states. it's not lost on me today that i'm the first woman appointed to serve in this role. you might have guessed it that it matters to me what i'm wearing today. i wore white today to recognize those who made it possible for me to stand here today and take oath. the suffragists didn't sign the declaration of independence or the constitution, so they aren't on these murals behind me. but they're a contribution to the vitality of our democracy is no less meaningful. along with many other inspiring leaders. american history. they believed the principles enshrined in these documents and claim

and now in the national archives. each one is a snapshot in time, tracing the history of a young republic. our republic from its nascent beginnings to who we are today. the greatest, most powerful country on this planet. the constant tension and the declaration of independence. like the louisiana purchase and emancipation proclamation, the 13th and 19th amendment. harriet tubman. civil war pension claims. thomas edison's light bulb. patent. a letter. annie oakley sent to president mckinley in 1898. volunteering the lady sharpshooters for the spanish-american war. the transfer of power between 46 present agents. each of these pieces of paper tells a story. the story of a country and its people seeking and zagging through history, imperfectly matching, marching toward a more perfect union. conversely, some times that story is a dark one. manifest lots of slave ships. president roosevelt's exact native order on japanese internment. the supreme court's dred scott decision. it's the start worries. we must learn the most fr

the national archives. so why did you make that decision and describe now what is the message that you're hoping people get when they walk through and see that document along with the i view the emancipation. as one of our founding documents it was not signed in 1776 or 1789. it occurred later in american history. but it's really what i view as the re founding of the united states. it really articulates the declaration the principles of, the declaration of independence. it's a re articulation as lincoln would describe it it is not the end all be all of what we know to be the freedom for african-americans and their full citizenship rights, particularly. but is the beginning to extend those rights to african americans. and that's incredibly important. what other changes will you make? well, we are looking to make sure that we enhance our visitor experi ence at the national archives. right now. we do have our big exhibit, the founding documents, which are always on display, are our our major exhibit is undergo

the national archives. so why did you make that decision and describe now what is the message that you're hoping people get when they walk through and see that document along with the i view the emancipation. as one of our founding documents it was not signed in 1776 or 1789. it occurred later in american history. but it's really what i view as the re founding of the united states. it really articulates the declaration the principles of, the declaration of independence. it's a re articulation as lincoln would describe it it is not the end all be all of what we know to be the freedom for african-americans and their full citizenship rights, particularly. but is the beginning to extend those rights to african americans. and that's incredibly important. what other changes will you make? well, we are looking to make sure that we enhance our visitor experiwe do have our big exhibie founding documents, which are always on display, are our our major exhibit is undergoing renovation. so we can be ready for 2025 movi

what is the most requested item of the national archives? well, i think that historic oakley, the most requested item, is i understand it was was a photograph, elvis and richard nixon in his in the oval office, which is a really compelling and interesting photograph and actually, when i was at the white house historical association and one of the historians that i worked alongside with, she wrote a terrific article you can find on the white house historical association website about the history, that photograph and why elvis came to visit richard nixon. so you can check it out on our white house. white house, white house history. it's a fascinating story. do you have a favorite document? i have a set of of favorite documents, obviously. to me, in my role in the women's suffrage centennial commission. i really love the 19th amendment. the 19th amendment is important, obviously, for women gaining the right to vote, the legal right to vote, but also for i should be for all americans, since it was the largest single enfranchise easement in ameri

so that the national archives are the custody and the stewards of those materials, which is the same for what is referred as a barack obama presidential library. but that is actually the archive. i think the thing that is complex to it is that the presidency that is, you know, the main kind of thrust of this particular story is also the story of the nation's first digital president. it is that which means that the majority, 95% of those presidential records were born digital without paper equivalents. that means that the president wanted to ensure that in building the center this complex that we were giving over as much real estate as possible to every day people hence partnering with the chicago public library system, it means that scholars and for researchers and interested readers who want to really delve into the history of this administration, those materials is still available through the national archives, the obama foundation is helping to digitize the remaining. 5% of those textual records, the unclassified records. that still means some 26 million pages to be digitized. and

the national archives of the custodians and stewards of those materials which is the same for what iss the barack obama presidential library. that's actually the archives. i think the thing that is complicated the presidency of the main thrust of this particular story was also the story of the first digital presidents. which means the vast majority, 95% of those presidential records were born digital without paper equivalency. that means the president wants to ensure and building the center this complex we were giving over as much real estate as possible to everyday people. hence with the public library system. that means for scholars and researchers and interested readers who want to delve into the history does those are available to the national archives. the obama foundation is helping to digitize the remaining 5% of the records, the unclassified records. that is 26 million pages to be digitized. and everyone in this room knows it digitization is not one in the same with access. we still need to ensure auteur leaders are fully accessible to digital meansns. that is where partner at

step inside your historic washington dc office as she talks about her stewardship of the national archives and the controversy over the white house records during the trump era and the debate surrounding joe biden. >> after the national archives did the search and determines what record would be responsive to the specific request from example -- for example the chairman. then we have to notify the president of whose administration those records come from. as well as the current president , the incumbent president. in this case president obama area and that would be vice president biden's record. and president biden himself is the incumbent resident. and then there is at least a 30 day period in which they have time to review the records. and then, there is a period where we are able to hopefully provide access and were best to the chairman of the committee or whomever asked for that. announcer: watch our exclusive interview with: show good the 11th archivist of the united states. saturday at 8:00 eastern c-span now, our free video mobile app or online at c-span.org. ♪ announcer: since 1979

if we have a lot of questions for national archives.ant to know exactly which documents joe biden mishandled and and where those 82,000 e-mails that he used fake names went to. elizabeth: you said the biden family laundered money. how do we know that? >> we know that through bank statements. i mean, you're going to see more graphs that shows when wires would come in from places like china or romania, they would launder them through various shell companies. and it's not my words, it's the words of six different banks through the suspicious activity reports. remember, one of the first victims are -- victories we had in this investigation was me gaining access to the treasury department. that's where they store these bank violations. so six different banks filed 170 suspicious activity reports on the biden family, and the majority of those suspicious activity reports pertain to money laundering. this is a serious crime, and it wasn't just the president's son, it's also his brother as well. elizabeth: james biden. okay. you know, the 82,000

office as she talks about her stewardship of the national archives and controversial records during the donald trump era to current debates surrounding joe biden. [video clip] >> under the presidential records act after the national archives does a search and determines what records would be responsive to the specific request from a chairman of the committee, we have to notify the president of whose administration those records come from, as well as the current president, the incumbent president. in this case, president obama would be for vice president biden's records. president biden is the incumbent president. there is the 30 day period in which they have time to review those records. and enter a period in which we are able to hopefully provide access and request to the chairman of the committee or whoever has asked for them under a special access request. >> watch our exclusive interview with colleen show can. tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, c-span now our free mobile video app or online at c-span.org. ♪ >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these

for the national archives. the foundation supports all of our education outreach activities. and there are applications for membership in the lobby also. our guest, afternoon elizabeth mitchell is the author of two nonfiction books, three strides before the wire, the dark and beautiful world of horse racing and w the revenge, the bush dynasty. she also recently published a novella length unfit and works for by liner and the fearless mrs. godwin about the first female detective in the united states. her freelance writing has appeared in such publications as the wall street journal, chicago tribune, gq, glamor, the nation. she was also executive editor of george and before that features editor at spin. she's the co-founder of read this, a volunteer group that delivers books where needed, including to troops abroad, children living in poverty in public with no library. this summer, she's teaching nonfiction, writing the columbia university's summer session. and today she's here to talk about her third book, libert

she talks about her stewardship of the national archives and controversies over white house records during the donald trump era to the current debate surrounding joe biden. >> under the presidential records act, after the national archives does a search and determines what records would be responsive to the specific request from, for example the chairman of the committee, then you have to notify the president of whose administration, those records come from, as well as the current president, the incumbent president. in this case, president obama, that would be for vice president biden's records and president biden himself is the incumbent president. then there is at least the 30 day period in which they have time to review those records. and then we enter a period in which we're able to provide access and request to the chairman of the committee or whoever is asking under a special act that was requested. >> watch our exclusive interview with colleen shogan the 11th archivist of the united states saturday at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span, c-span now, or online at c-span.org. ♪ >> monday, watch

, in addition, the funds of the national archive contain personal files on the commanders of the partisany bumashkov, but these are our famous partisans who were the first in the soviet union to be awarded the high title of hero of the soviet union for partisan struggle. a month and a half after the organization of the red october detachment, bumashkov, being recalled to the front, transferred command to pavlovsky. he, sharp, strong-willed, and his permanent commissar, a favorite of the partisans, a soul-man. they sent groups of their partisans to neighboring districts and new detachments arose there. this responded to the passionate, spontaneous desire of the people to fight. this detachment became the ancestor of thirteen other partisan detachments, which later united into the powerful legendary 123 partisan brigade named after the 25th anniversary of the bssr. in november 1940, near the village of orzhitsa , poltava region, tikhan bumashkov died in battle. the fight continued to escalate. by the end of september, the red october partisan detachment under the command of pavlovsky libera

i was i did a lot of research in the state department in, the national archives. there were just troves and troves telegrams. and i read through all of telegrams and i came to the end of. september 1970 folder and the next folder started in october. and all the hostages home by october. so i didn't think i'd find in there, but when i opened it, i found something that i remembered quite well, which was a sheaf of papers, literature. our captors had given out for the hostages read spelling out their plight. i'd always remembered the opening words which something like ladies and, gentlemen, i feel it is my duty. explain why. why we have done what we have done. and i saw those words and i scanned the entire document and it took me two years to go back read it it was just it was just too much because i remembered sitting on the plane it so what you're talking about stacie is is a moment and i will happy to read this passage when i was in what's called the motion research room of the national archives and had a wonderful, wonderful researcher there, helped me find these

office and she talks about her stewardship of the national archives and controversies over the dollar trump era. the current debate concerning joe biden. >> under the law to the presidential act, after the national archives determining which record would be responsive to the specific request from chairman of the committee and then we have to notify the president of whose administration the records come from as well as the current president. in this case president obama, vice president biden's record and president biden himself is the incumbent president and then there is a 30 day period in which they have time to review the records and appeared in which we are able to hopefully provide access request to the chairman of the committee or whoever under

as she talks about her stewardship of the national archives and controversies over white house records during the donald trump era, the current debate surrounding joe biden. >> under the law under the presidential records act, after the national archives does a search and discovers which records would be responsive to the specific requests from chairman of the committee, then we have to notify the president of whose administration those records come from. as well as the current president, the incumbent. in this case, president obama would be for vice president biden's records. and president biden himself is the incumbent president. then there is a 30 day period in which they have time to review those records. and a period under which we are able to hopefully provide access and request to the chairman or who ever asked for them under a special access request. announcer: watch our exclusive interview with colleen show get, the 11th archivist of the united states. saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, c-span now, our fee mobile video out -- our free mobile video app, or c-span.org. ann

in addition, in the collections of the national archives.ovsky bumashkov, these are our famous partisans who were the first in the soviet union to be awarded the high title of hero of the soviet union for partisan struggle. a month and a half after the organization of the red october detachment, bumashkov, being recalled to the front, handed over command to pavlovsky, he is sharp, and his is permanent. the commissar, the partisans' favorite, the soul-man, makhonko, sent groups of his partisans to neighboring districts, and new detachments arose there. this corresponded to the passionate, spontaneous desire of the people to fight. this detachment became the ancestor of thirteen other partisan detachments, which later united into the powerful legendary 123rd partisan brigade named after the twenty-fifth anniversary of the bsu. in november 1941 , near the village of orzhitsa, poltava region, tikhan bumashkov died in battle, the struggle continued to intensify, by the end of partisan detachment red october. somewhere in july of the forty-second

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i wound up filing a freedom of information request and sure enough her papers were in the national archives right here in college park maryland. that was a fabulous frustrating experience because you are constantly filling out forms and getting permission and waiting for hours and hours for papers to arrive. but what i found was like gold. so it was classified papers some of them from -- >> where did you find those classified papers? [laughter] [inaudible] >> i don't know where that came from. >> so what did you do with them? can we name a special counsel? [laughter] just kidding. but did you go into the process thinking okay early 1900s, or did you know marguerite was the one that you wanted? >> the little bit that i read about her old me she was the one. her whole viewpoint was as an internationalist. she cared about world affairs and that's something that's always interested me. she was really smart. she was beautiful and charming because her government pulled her you can be intellectual if you want but you get much further being charming which is the latter truth from that. and where sh

on the last point about the national archives, the national archives is not there to help pack up administrations is done by aides. the reason why it was so chaotic at the end of the trumpet administration was because he did not make preparations to leave. there was no formal transition process and everything got done at the last minute and put in boxes and shipped donda merrill lago. -- shipped down to mar-a-lago. the national archives is asking that you return official white house documents and the doj said we ask that you comply with the federal grand jury. host: the former president and supporters take a look at president biden saying documents are found in his property but the treatment was different. what do you make of those comparisons? guest: they are not like cases. when the department of justice prosecutes classified documents or espionage act violations, they look at multiple cases with aggravating factors. was there evidence of disloyalty to the united states? evidence of extremely large number of documents? in trump posey case -- in trump's case there were hundreds of documents. he

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she is present at a myriad symposia ranging from the wilson center to the national archives, and she has given numerous media interviews for hostages and assignments, including captain america civil war sails project, the don't ask, don't tell task force and the advisory committee. the congressional effort to establish the woman's history museum on the national mall. she's also a key contributor to the patriot act and corridor renovation project. she is the 2020 force tug of war, a cohesive unit for outstanding career achievements in oral history. please help me welcome dr. gina. ness. please welcome. that was dr. edward valentino jr. ross. he received his bachelor's in history from the united states military in 2010 and his doctorate in history from rice university in may 20. in 2016, everett began working the buffalo soldiers national museum, houston, texas as an assistant curator. since july 2020 and has worked as curator at the national museum of the united states. his research focuses on race in identity and the u.s. military, and his work appears in war history. he is currently

the government actually owns, the film today, the national in the national archives. they own the physical film, but the sixth floor museum in dallas owns the copyright to the film. so if we to show it during this interview, what would it cost us? probably not very much. he would go to sixth floor museum and get permission you would tell them that it was for education purposes or research purposes. the is they would charge you a few hundred dollars i would assume if you were going to be making a lot of money off this film. oliver stone did they would charge you considerably more in the tens of thousands of dollars. mr. hornberger why was it kept off the air from american public for 12 years? well that's a fascinating story. and that's really part of the subject of my book, the when life my, life maggie magazine was the one who negotiated the purchase of this from abraham zapruder, and when they first came to him, they said we were interested just in the print rights because life magazine, the most popular magazine, america at that time, but they had no ability to show

. >> under the presidential records act, after the national archives does a search and determines what records would be responsive to the specific request from for example the chairman of the committee, then we have to notify the president of whhose administration those records come from as well as the current president, the incumbent president, in this case president obama, that would be, for president biden's records, and president biden himself as the incumbent president. then there is at least the 30 day period in which they have time to review those records. and then under a period in which we are able to provide acts of request to the chairman of the committee or whoever has asked for them under a special access request. >> watch our exclusive interview with the 11th archivist of the u.s. saturday at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span, c-span now, or online at c-span.org. >> president biden spoke on september's jobs reports showing that nonfarm payrolls increased by 336,000 and the unemployment rate stood at 3.8%. the president addressed the unexpected numbers on national manufacturing day

she discusses her stewardship of the national archives and the controversy over the white house records involving donald trump and joe biden. at 9:30 p.m. eastern on the presidency, the ronald reagan presidential library is the host of the discussion looking back at the rhetorical legacy of the reagan known as the great communicator. explore the american story. watch american history tv saturday on c-span2 or watch online anytime at c-span.org/history. and now the pentagon press secretary with an update on the navy destroyer in the red sea that shut down several drones that were launched by hootie forces in yemen. he also spoke about ongoing military aid for israel and the pre-

editor in chief, john solomon reporting the national archives responding to his foia request, they have 82000 e-mails that were connected, remember those three pseudonym, joe biden accounts, the ones he used as vice president that's not all. uncovered the $250,000 payment wire from a chinese business niece man to hunter in joe's address in delaware was considered a loan, here we go again, hunter's so called sugar brother la kevin morris taking on the debt himself a few years later. how nice. same guy, by the way, according to reports, paid hunter's taxes and living expenses in california. that according to the "new york times." and also helped hunter sell his books and his paint by numbers artwork, portraits of a crack addict. we bring in the editor in chief, investigative reporter, just the news.com john solomon. okay, you put in a foia request, 82000 pages? okay. i would imagine you have a lot of work to do. and what is it about this $250,000 loan and this guy that takes on the loan? >> yeah, let's start with the foia request. southeastern legal foundation has been representing us doi

house records during the trump administration. >> under the presidential records, after the national archivesarch and determines which records will be responsive to the specific request from a chairman of the committee, then we have to notify the president whose administration those records come from. as well as the current president , the incumbent president. in this case, president obama that would be for vice president biden's records and then president biden himself is the incumbent president. then there is at least a 30 day period in which they have time to review those records. under a period in which we are able to provide access in requests to the chairman depending on whoever is asking for them under a special access request. >> watch our interview with colleen, the 11th archivist of the u.s., saturday at 8 p.m. eastern. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government, we are funded by these television companies and more, including buckeye broadband. >> buckeye broadband support c-span as a publ service, along with these other televion providers, giving you a front row seat to democr

office as she talks about her stewardship of a national archive and controversies over white house recordsmp era to the current debates surrounding joe biden. >> under the presidential records act, after the national archives does a search and determines what records would be responsive to the specific request from for example the chairman of the committee, then we have to notify the president of whhose administration those records come from as well as the current president, the incumbent president, in this case president obama, that would be, for president biden's records, and president biden himself as the incumbent president. then there is at least the 30 day period in which they have time to review those records. and then under a period in which we are able to provide acts of request to the chairman of the committee or whoever has asked for them under a special access request. >> watch our exclusive interview

bureaucratic way and these israels make the killers accountable, they have to lodge reports in the national archivesnd you see time after time after time, evidence of massacre of um, in 48 people being lined up and executed in 56 when they invaded gaza, the sons and and and young men of families being being taken away and executed in front of their parents, in front in front of their family.

she discusses her stewardship at the national archives and controversies over white house records involving donald trump and joe biden. at 9:30 p.m. eastern on the presidency the ronald reagan presidential library is a host of discussion looking back at the rhetorical legacy of ronald reagan known as the great communicator. exploring the american story, watch american history tv saturdays on c-span2 and find a full schedule and your program guide or watch online anytime at c-span.org/history. >> a healthy democracy doesn't just look like this. it looks like this where americans can see democracy at work, where citizens are truly informed, a republic thrives. get informed straight from the source on c-span. and filtered, word for word. from the nation's capital to wherever you are here because the opinion that matters most is your own. this is what democracy looks like. c-span, powered by cable. >> no republican presidential hopeful perry johnson talks about the economy, the biden administration's energy policies and global competitiveness during remarks at the first in the nation leadership

this is this map, which is dated to the 18th century, and to her, it was handed over from the national archive of sweden, here is a plan of the city and we see its name bakhmud, not artimovskyi, as it was called later, this city was under soviet power, and by the way, in 1917, after the adoption of the third universal of the ukrainian central rada, precisely in this city over a state institution: the blue-yellow ukrainian flag was raised for the first time in donbas. in addition to this exhibition, we can also see the personal belongings of the soldiers who defended the city of bahmud, there are only 14 defenders, 11 of them unfortunately died, two are still in the bahmud direction and repel enemy attacks every day, and one of them is now wounded and he is recovering at home. here you can find clothes, chevrons, body armor, fairy tales. guns as well, absolutely all such things that are ours every day the military uses it for the defense of the enemy, and by the way, the brides and wives of the fallen soldiers also came here for the opening of the exhibition, and they remember their husbands as

she discusses her stewardship of the national archives and the controversy over the white house records involving donald trump and joe biden. at 9:30 p.m. eastern on the presidency, the ronald reagan presidential library is the host of the discussion looking back at the rhetorical legacy of the reagan known as the great communicator. explore the american story. watch american history tv saturday on c-span2 or watch online anytime at c-span.org/history. and now the pentagon press secretary with an update on the navy destroyer in the red sea that shut down several drones that were launched by hootie forces in yemen. he also spoke about ongoing military aid for israel and the pre-hospital is persian in gaza. this is about 35 minutes. , currently underway and in route. additionally we trying to provide additional capabilities by fostering these u.s. naval assets, we aim to send a strong message intended to deter a wider conflict. to bolster regional stability and of course, to make it clear we will protect and defend our national security interests. to that end, a crew of the guided missile

step inside her historic office as she talks about her stewardship of the national archives and controversies over white house records during the donald trump era to the current debate surrounding joe biden. >> under the law of the presidential records act, the national archives asserts and determines what records would be responsive to the specific requests from, for example, a chairman of a committee. then we have to notify the president of whose administration those records come from as well as the current president, the incumbent president. in this case, president obama. that would be for vice president biden's records. and of course president biden himself as the incumbent president. and then there's at least a 30 day period in which they have time to review those records and/or a period in which we are hopefully able to provide access to the chairman of the committee or whoever has asked for them. >> watch our exclusive interview with colleen shogun, the 11th archivist of the united states saturday at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span, c-span now, our free mobile video app, or online at c-span.o