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Presidential Papers at the Library of Congress
Through diaries, family papers, official correspondence, letters from the public, reports, speeches and writings, financial records, photographs, drawings, printed ephemera, memorabilia, and other materials, the presidential collections document the public careers and private lives of the presidents, as well as the issues they confronted while serving as the nation’s chief executive. The presidents corresponded with a variety of people including public and elected officials, slaves and former slaves, political allies, ideological opponents, military leaders and foreign diplomats, as well as Americans citizens, and immigrants, on subjects ranging from routine requests for assistance, to responses to national and world tragedies, to negotiations to end wars, to the nature of American democracy itself.
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You’ll encounter both ordinary and extraordinary people, documents, and historical moments in the presidential papers at the Library of Congress!