The National Archives is formally asking former presidents and vice presidents to re-check their personal records for any classified documents or other presidential records in the wake of classified documents discovered in the homes of former President Donald Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence and President Joe Biden over the last year.
The Archives sent a letter Thursday to representatives of former presidents and vice presidents from the last six presidential administrations covered by the Presidential Records Act (PRA) – from former President Ronald Reagan’s White House to the present.
The letter, which was reviewed by CNN, requests that they check their files to ensure that material thought to be personal does not “inadvertently” contain presidential records that are required by law to be turned over to the Archives.
[Why not ask Jimmy Carter? While he signed the Presidential Records Act into law, he’s technically grandfathered from its provisions. They could still *ask*, and I’d bet that Carter wouldn’t object to the jurisdictional issue, but apparently they won’t. — Ed]
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