Long before document scandals involving Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Mike Pence, presidential papers had a way of materializing in strange places—sometimes a century later.
Biden and Pence both said they were unaware of the documents’ presence in their homes and voluntarily turned them over. Former president Donald Trump has been under criminal investigation since last August, when FBI agents raided his Florida estate and found boxes of presidential papers, including classified documents, after Trump failed to comply with a subpoena to return papers.
Some presidents had a hard time hanging on to their papers. Ulysses S. Grant, who left office in 1877, said, “The only place I ever found in my life to put a paper so as to find it again was either a side coat pocket or the hands of a clerk…more careful than myself.” In 1904, a Library of Congress official determined that the late president had left some folders of letters in the White House, but they couldn’t be found. Finally, in 1921, Grant’s grandson, Ulysses S.
The next big find during the Watergate scandal was the existence of secret White House tapes, which Nixon at first refused to release, saying they belonged to him. In 1974, Congress passed a law requiring him to turn over all presidential materials. In 1978, Congress enacted the Presidential Records Act, requiring futureThe AP recently
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