Today in 2008 US President George W. Bush sent his last fiscal year budget proposal to congress. For the sixth year in a row, he proposed a zero budget for the NHPRC.
February 4, 2020

On this date in 2006, US President George W. Bush submitted to Congress a budget in which he proposed funding the National Archives and Records Administration at $12.2 million below its then current operating needs and eliminating the NHPRC entirely. For the second year in a row President Bush proposed no funds whatsoever for National Historical Publications and Records Commission grants and only $510,000 for staffing and administering remaining ongoing grants. Once ongoing grants were completed, the NHPRC would have been terminated under President's Bush's proposal.
February 6, 2020

On this date in 2005, following controversy over the nature of his appointment, the United States Senate quietly confirmed Dr. Allen Weinstein as the ninth Archivist of the United States.
February 10, 2020

On this date in 2006, the New York Times in a front-page story revealed a nine-year-old secret program at the United States National Archives to remove from public access and restore to classified status thousands of historical documents that had been available for years, including some already published by the State Department and others photocopied years ago by researchers. After receiving complaints, the archives' Information Security Oversight Office, which oversees government classification, began an audit of the reclassification program. J. William Leonard, director of the office, said he ordered the audit after reviewing 16 withdrawn documents and concluding none should be secret. "If those sample records were removed because somebody thought they were classified, I'm shocked and disappointed," Mr. Leonard said. "It just boggles the mind." National Archives officials later said that one third of the seized documents were removed improperly and much of the remainder had little or no national security va
February 21, 2020