The National Archives Experience: Digital Vaults

Independence for the National Archives

10/19/1984

Signed by President Ronald Reagan on October 14, 1984, Public Law 98-497 established an independent National Archives and Records Administration on April 1, 1985. Although President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the National Archives as an independent agency in 1934, a 1950 law subsequently placed it under a newly created U.S. General Services Administration. The 1984 law restored the Archives’ independence.

National Archives, General Records of the U.S. Government

Tags

• Presidents
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Ronald Reagan
• Acts
• National Archives

Media

• July 4th 2008 at the National Archives

Additional Resources

• FORT ARCHIVES - The National Archives Goes to War
• Secrecy and Salesmanship in the Struggle for NARA's Independence
• ARC Gallery: Congress
• ARC Gallery: Franklin D. Roosevelt