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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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[-] JustTheWind@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Babe, wake up, a new Isekai anime plot just dropped.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

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

[-] MJKee9@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Tbf, England doesn't have a good track record when it comes to returning culturally significant items ....

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 5 hours ago

Trump against precedence keeps the gifts given to him rather than them going to a museum. As such I would appreciate it if you guys gifted him a clue.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Unfortunately we don't have a lot of those ourselves these days

[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 14 points 15 hours ago

Have you been to the British Museum?

We're not great at giving stuff back

[-] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 96 points 1 day ago

Stop fucking resigning ffs!

Make them drag you out!

[-] iMastari@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

You can’t collect unemployment if you quit.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago

So why are they quitting?

[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 153 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[-] Rothe@piefed.social 56 points 1 day ago

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

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

[-] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 6 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.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 5 hours ago

It actually amazes me how resilient its be. The major check on this is the senate and the supreme court but while the founders realized there would be all sorts of parties and philosophies vying for control it did not seem to occur to them that such a massive number of self respecting people would go against freedom, democracy, individual rights and essentially everything the country was built on. They ultimately assumed they would be americans.

[-] ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 68 points 1 day ago

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

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

[-] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

He refused, then resigned.

[-] ngdev@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

methinks government is where the spineless go

[-] DemBoSain@midwest.social 11 points 1 day ago
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