.MaddowBlog: At the intersection of the National Archives and Trump’s presidency
If you’ve never spent time in Washington, D.C., you may not appreciate how inspiring a trip to the National Archives can be. It’s an institution that houses and protects many of the nation’s most precious historical treasures, including the original copies of the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, both of which are on display to the public in the building’s main rotunda.
In the original version of the 2017 photograph, taken by Getty Images photographer Mario Tama, the street is packed with marchers carrying a variety of signs, with the Capitol in the background. In the Archives version, at least four of those signs are altered. In other words, the National Archives gave historical images a little touch-up, so as to avoid “political controversy,” as an Archives spokesperson put it. In the process, the institution created an entirely different political controversy.
The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration retreated over the weekend and acknowledged that officials “made a mistake.” That was, to be sure, the appropriate response, and it was good to see the Archives acknowledge the misstep quickly, while vowing to take steps to ensure the mistake isn’t repeated.
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