Honolulu News Conference Monday - Obama expert Andy Martin says the University of Hawai’i should renew its efforts to become the host of the Obama Presidential Library, which will be legally and physically distinct from the “Obama Presidential Center” in Chicago
Obama expert Andy Martin, who came
to Hawai’i a decade ago to begin independent local
research into President Barack Obama’s family history, will hold a Honolulu news conference Monday to encourage the University of Hawai’i to renew and reopen its efforts to host the
Obama Presidential Library. Andy says recent developments in Chicago have created, at a minimum, confusion as to where the final repository for the original records
of the Obama presidency will be located by the National Archives and Records
Administration. Andy says UH still has a chance to be the host to Obama’s
original records, which will be administered by NARA , because that center will not be located in
Chicago .
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Announcement of Honolulu news conference Monday, November 20
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November 20 Honolulu news conference details:
Who:
Obama expert and conservative columnist/blogger Andy Martin
encourages the University of Hawai’i to renew efforts
to become the host of the actual Obama Presidential Library
What:
Andy says confusion as to where President Obama’s original presidential
records will be housed reopens the door for Hawaii to host that
center
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Corner of Kalia Road and Ala Moana Boulevard, by Fort
DeRussy sign, Honolulu
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Monday, November 20,
2017 ; 11:00 A.M.
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Andy
Martin says the fact that President Obama’s original presidential documents
will not be housed in Chicago reopens the question of where
they will be maintained
Andy
says the repository of original documents will become the “real” Obama
Presidential Library
Andy
says the people of Chicago and Illinois may have been bamboozled by
Obama into believing his “Center’ on the South Side of Chicago would be the “library”
mandated by federal law
(Honolulu , HI )
(November 20, 2017 )
Obama expert and conservative columnist/blogger
Andy Martin will hold a Honolulu news conference today, Monday, November 20th to encourage the University of Hawaii to renew and reopen its efforts to house
President Barack Obama’s original presidential records (“library?”).
“I don’t think it is
an exaggeration to say I was President Barack Obama’s original researcher,”
Andy says. “I wrote the first critique of his ‘biography’ in 2004 and I came to
Hawaii a decade ago and began the first independent
scholarly research into his family history. My efforts became the foundation of
later work by other writers who, ironically, made my original research ‘controversial.’
My writing was later distorted both by Obama’s supporters, who wanted to
control what was the approved version of Obama's family history, and by Obama's
opponents, who wanted to create am imaginary presidential birthplace in Kenya.
“But unlike President
Trump, I never suggested Obama was born elsewhere. I always stated that my
research and evidence pointed solely to his birth in Honolulu . I got it right; Trump did not.
“However, I must confess
to a ‘conflict’ that existed within me. On the one hand I had to adhere to scrupulous
standards of scholarly research for accuracy and impartiality. I think I met those
standards. All of my commentary and analysis about Obama has been vindicated.
“On the other hand, I
was a political opponent of President Obama’s policies, and that created an
inherent tension. But while President Obama’s political mojo is being enhanced
by the current collapse of the Clinton dynasty, Obama is no longer in office and the tension between my
scholarly research and my political advocacy is now largely dissipated. My
scholarly research on Obama, however, continues.
“And I am once again on
the cutting edge of pointing to the discrepancy between the ‘appearance’ and ‘reality’
involving Obama, by raising questions concerning the ultimate and ‘real’ Obama
Presidential Library (“OPL”) and an imaginary one which is supposedly being
created in Jackson Park, Chicago and which has been named the “Obama Presidential
Center” (“OPC ”).
“Up until President
Obama, the federally-mandated presidential library contained the original
documents and the artifacts concerning a presidency (please see link [1]
below). President Obama has chosen to depart from that model (please see link
[2] below) and in doing so has created serious ongoing confusion. He says the OPC will not be the federally-mandated OPL.
“Some time ago the University of Hawai’i (“UH”), Columbia University in New
York and
the University of Chicago ‘competed’ to host what was thought to be
the OPL. We now know that was not the case. The OPC which is being created in Chicago will not be the federally-mandated repository
of the original documents and materials maintained by law by NARA (private funding is used to construct the
physical library building). NARA ’s ‘original’ records are currently housed in
a warehouse in suburban Chicago . But where will they ultimately and finally be housed? That location
will become as a matter of law the ‘real’ OPL.
“Because NARA has not announced the final location that
location is apparently still an open issue or question. Obviously, the
voluminous presidential records are not going to remain in the suburban
warehouse forever. Federal law mandates that the original records be made
available. But where?
“I encourage UH to
renew and reopen its efforts to house the original Obama records since they
will become in reality the genuine OPL. Of course others, such as Columbia University and even new institutions are also free to ask NARA to house the original records at their
universities.
“I return to what I
said a decade ago when I first arrived in Honolulu to study Obama. Scholarly research is
scholarly research. We try to find the facts and search for the truth. Scholars
deal in original documents and materials, not facsimiles of originals such as
will be available in Chicago at the OPC .
“To some extent the people
of Chicago and the University of Chicago were bamboozled, because the city was led
to believe it was surrendering valuable parkland as the site for an actual
presidential library, not a ‘presidential center.’
“I question and will continue
to question whether the bankrupt City of Chicago and bankrupt State of Illinois
should be funding a Potemkin ‘library’ which is not the real federally-mandated
library and merely a ‘center’ where facsimiles of originals are available. But
entirely apart from how the OPC will function
over time, the documents are a physical reality that have to be housed
somewhere by NARA . NARA cannot remain mum indefinitely as to the
final location of the Obama records. Until the final location is determined, I
assume it is an open question where that will be and I encourage UH to reopen
and renew its efforts to host what apparently will become the ‘real’ OPL,” Andy
says.
“Stay tuned. My
relationship with Barack Obama and reality, now fourteen years old, continues.
As usual, I continue to seek to find the facts and search for the truth”
To contact Andy in Honolulu : (917) 664-9329
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LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not
just the underlined portion):
[1]
https://www.archives.gov/
[2]
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obamacenter/ct-met-obama-archives-20171004-story.html
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