Examine Constituent Gift Storage Costs
Explore if American taxpayers should fund the storage of consumer goods as gifts to Presidents, suggesting strategies like donating gifts to charity and utilizing digital records. Research conducted by Dr. Eric Carlos Stoykovich at the University of Maryland libraries.
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Should the American people pay to warehouse consumer goods? Re-examining the Research Value of Constituent Gifts to the U.S. President and Vice President Dr. Eric Carlos Stoykovich Project Archivist, Special Collections University of Maryland libraries
Presidential Gifts in presidential libraries ( % Represented Online) 100000 92000 90000 80000 75000 70000 60000 < 1 % < 1 % < 1 % 5 % 5 % < 1 % < 1 % 50000 40000 30000 30000 20000 13000 12000 10000 8000 10000 7589 400 300 0 Hoover Truman Kennedy Nixon Carter Reagan Clinton
Rare Constituent Gifts, from Spiro T. Agnew papers, UMD libraries
Commonplace Constituent Gifts, from Spiro T. Agnew papers, UMD libraries
Commercial Books without Inscriptions William Jefferson Clinton Library 2 vols., Dolores Cannon s Conversations with Nostradamus (first published 1992) An issue of American Heritage The Magazine of History Paperback book Nicotina (in Spanish) by L. Ventura Fernandez
Reduce Cost of Storing Presidential Gifts Could more gifts be donated by the White House to charity? Could an appraisal strategy be adopted which accounts for the Presidential Records Act? Could a high-quality digital photograph substitute as a record of constituent gifts?
Questions? Dr. Eric C. Stoykovich University of Maryland libraries estoyko@umd.edu
