MAC and the Archivist of the United States
- Mark A. Greene
Abstract
At its 5 May meeting during the conference in Chicago, Council unanimously adopted a resolution opposing the nomination of John Carlin to be Archivist of the United States. Three MAC members—Timothy Ericson, Susan Davis, and new Council member Karen Benedict—met with Carlin earlier as part of an SAA delegation and made a presentation to Council detailing their reasons for wishing to see MAC join SAA in opposition to the nomination. The most fundamental objections were that Carlin did not fit the SAA/NAGARA qualifications for Archivist of the U.S. defined in 1993, principally because he “lacks even a rudimentary understanding of the role and mission of the National Archives,” as Susan Davis has phrased it. Moreover, having run Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign in Kansas “Carlin would be a partisan, political appointee,” which would “further politicize the office of Archivist of the United States,” in Karen Benedict’s words.
How to Cite:
Greene, M. A., (1995) “MAC and the Archivist of the United States”, MAC Newsletter 23(1), 1,4.
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