Reconsidering the Cost of Warehousing Presidential Gifts: Research Insights

Examining the research value of constituent gifts to the U.S. President and Vice President, Dr. Eric Carlos Stoykovich questions if the American people should pay to warehouse consumer goods. This analysis delves into the storage costs, online representation, and rare vs. commonplace gifts in presidential libraries. Suggestions to reduce costs include donating more gifts to charity, adopting an appraisal strategy considering the Presidential Records Act, and using high-quality digital photographs as records of constituent gifts.

• Presidential gifts
• Research value
• Constituent gifts
• Warehousing cost
• Donation strategy

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1. 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

2. 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

3. Rare Constituent Gifts, from Spiro T. Agnew papers, UMD libraries

4. Commonplace Constituent Gifts, from Spiro T. Agnew papers, UMD libraries

5. 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

6. 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?

7. Questions? Dr. Eric C. Stoykovich University of Maryland libraries estoyko@umd.edu