What happens to Presidential materials at the end of a Presidential administration?
• As a Presidential administration nears its end, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) works closely with the White House and the Department of Defense (DOD) to undertake a smooth transfer of Presidential records and other historical materials to NARA. • NARA locates, rents, and retrofits, as necessary, appropriate temporary storage in the area of the future Presidential library. At the same time, NARA begins the massive undertaking of organizing, boxing, palletizing, and moving a huge amount of Presidential materials from various Washington, D.C., locations to the temporary storage facility (then known as a “Presidential Project”). This process, done in coordination with the White House and the DOD, usually takes several months, and must be completed at noon on Inauguration Day. • At the end of the Clinton administration, eight flights of fully loaded U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard C-5 cargo planes transported 625 tons of material from Andrews Air Force Base
