In the wake of the Watergate scandal, the US Congress passed the Presidential Records Act (PRA) in 1978. This act changed the legal ownership of official records from the Executive Office of the President (EOP) from private to public and mandated that these records be filed with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Although policies and procedures have been in place for years for preserving and archiving paper and electronic traditional documents and records, as White Hou