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The FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, on Aug. 8, 2022, has sparked a vigorous outcry from Trump and his allies. The details of the search are not clear, but reporting by The New York Times confirms that the search was “at least in part” for presidential records that Trump had taken from the White House and which were being sought by the National Archives and Records Administration. We asked Shannon Bow O'Brien, a scholar of the presidency at the University of Texas, Austin College of Liberal Arts, to discuss the history, law and customs associated with presidential archives. How do the archivists actually know what’s missing? Isn’t that hard to figure out? The archivists probably have a really keen idea of what is and what isn’t missing, based upon t...

Fifty years ago Bob Dylan released Highway 61 Revisited, which is arguably the best album ever. Some could defend a choice of one of three of The Beatles albums, or even Dylan's very own Blonde on Blonde or Blood on the Tracks. One point that cannot be debated, however, is that Highway 61 Revisited is the first album to be flawless in that it has no bad songs. Every record until then, no matter how good, contained at least one clunker. In the half century since its release, Highway 61 Revisited has been joined by just a handful of other albums that are flawless. Here are the ten, all perfect and from a wide range of the rock genre. Hunky Dory by David Bowie The biggest single from the album was "Changes," but each tune is a gem. There is a song honoring Dylan, another praising Andy War...

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How The FBI Knew What To Search For At Mar-A-Lago – The Presidential Records Act An Essential Tool For The National Archives And Future Historians

Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited, The Elite Records That Followed Rock’s First Flawless Album