Word: gsa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This week the Senate Government Operations Committee is expected to approve a bill introduced by Senator Birch Bayh that would give all federal officials-including Nixon-180 days after they leave office to turn over to the General Services Administration any documents and tapes produced in Government service. The GSA would deposit the materials in the National Archives. As in the case of the Pentagon Papers, the documents would belong to the Government...
None of these actions were based on statute. In fact, there seem to be only two laws directly relevant to presidential papers. The Presidential Libraries Act of 1955 authorized the GSA to accept for deposit historical materials of any Chief Executive. The 1969 Tax Reform Act outlawed deductions for any official's papers donated to a library or archive...
...decision was right, despite the outcry. But there were strong signs last week that, partly as a result of the pardon, Congress will not meekly accede to Nixon's request for some $850,000 in transition funds, as endorsed by Ford and urged by a compliant General Services Administration. GSA Administrator Arthur F. Sampson, a Nixon appointee who had never objected to any of the lavish Government-financed improvements to Nixon's San Clemente and Key Biscayne properties...
...GSA, at first refusing to discuss Maguire's selection with the community, launched an internal investigation of the firm. The review, according to GSA Administrator Arthur F. Sampson, concluded that the charges against Maguire were "unfounded...
Subsequent release of the actual report on the firm, however, showed the investigation had discovered "inconsistencies and inadequacies" in Maguire's past report. The GSA investigator had found no direct evidence that Maguire had altered its report under political pressure but conceded that there was circumstantial evidence for the accusations...