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The Eisenhower Presidential Library’s director has exited his position after advocating against giving a sword from the collection to King Charles as a gift during Donald Trump’s recent state visit, according to US media reports on Thursday.

Todd Arrington left his post on Monday after being told to “resign or be fired”, he told CBS News, which did not specify who had relayed the message to the historian.

The library and museum – located in former US president Dwight D Eisenhower’s home town in Abilene, Kansas – is part of the National Archives and Records Administration (Nara).

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[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago

I mean we would just give it back you when dumpy dies or is ousted.

[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 5 points 4 hours ago

Have you been to the British Museum?

We're not great at giving stuff back

[-] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 85 points 1 day ago

Stop fucking resigning ffs!

Make them drag you out!

[-] iMastari@lemmy.world 23 points 20 hours ago

You can’t collect unemployment if you quit.

[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 138 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The nation's treasures are not Trump's to give.

[-] Rothe@piefed.social 47 points 1 day ago

In a dictatorship he can do as he pleases, so unfortunately they are his to give.

[-] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

Well, technically, I think they are. Yet another example of how poor a system the founders set up.

[-] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day ago

I mean, the North American continent is also not white Europeans' to inhabit. So - I don't see any problem with this, times change. And other countries are not US' to make choices for.

But some humiliation after all that "checks and balances" pride will be refreshing eventually. It's an obvious and thus little seen truth that "checks and balances" can be used to build any kind of mechanism. Your country has achieved private surveillance and private censorship and private racial segregation. You'll deliver.

[-] ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 62 points 1 day ago

Honestly, why do they all just cave? Is there no one with a spine in that godforsaken country?

[-] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago

Historians aren't really known for wanting to be in the center of political battles.

[-] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago

But he put himself in the center when he refused to give up the sword.

[-] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

He refused, then resigned.

[-] ngdev@lemmy.zip 8 points 20 hours ago

methinks government is where the spineless go

[-] DemBoSain@midwest.social 9 points 23 hours ago
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