- The National Archives becomes owner of presidential records when administrations change hands.
- But apps that automatically delete messages raise concerns about erasing history.
WASHINGTON – White House documents found at the homes of Donald Trump, Mike Pence and Joe Biden barely scratched the surface of problems the National Archives and Records Administration faces in tracking and storing presidential records for posterity.
Government officials sometimes cart home documents, in a dispute over what is public and what is personal. FBI agents seized 11,000 documents at Trump’s estate Mar-a-Lago beyond the hundreds of classified records.
