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美国总统任内的文件书信等被认为是总统个人的财产,这是当年华盛顿创下的先例。1797年华盛顿卸任后,他把他的文件都带回了弗农山,想在那儿建立一座图书馆,但始终未能如愿。在此后的142年里,美国总统的文件不是被毁,就是被分散存储。本世纪初,美国国会图书馆开始着手处理这一问题,到30年代后期,它已设法收集了23位前总统存留下来的大量文件,但这一做法并未使当时的总统富兰克林·罗斯福感到满意。因为他的收藏决不是国会图书馆或其它机构能够容纳的。罗斯福首开先例
Document letters and the like within the United States presidential term are considered to be the personal property of the president, a precedent set by Washington in that year. After Washington took office in 1797, he brought all his papers back to Mount Vernon and wanted to set up a library there, but he was still unable to do so. In the 142 years that followed, the documents of the U.S. president were either destroyed or dispersed. At the beginning of this century, the Library of Congress started to deal with this issue. By the late 1930s, it had managed to collect a large amount of documents kept by the 23 former presidents, but this did not satisfy the then-President Franklin Roosevelt . Because his collection is by no means a Capitol Library or other institution that can accommodate it. Roosevelt first precedent