President Donald J. Trump has announced that Jim Byron will serve as Senior Advisor to Acting Archivist, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio, at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
Byron, who has led the Nixon Foundation as President and CEO since 2021, will take a leave of absence while the Trump administration conducts its search for a full-time Archivist of the United States.
During this interim period, Joe Lopez, the Nixon Foundation’s Vice President of Marketing and Communications, will serve as Acting President and CEO.
Since joining the Foundation in 2012, Lopez has led major initiatives that have expanded the Nixon Library’s national profile, including the Richard Nixon Centennial Celebration, the 50th-anniversary reunion of American POWs from Vietnam, and the reopening of the Nixon Library following a $15 million renovation.
Statement from Ambassador Robert C. O’Brien, Chairman of the Richard Nixon Foundation:
“The Nixon Foundation is pleased that President Trump has appointed Jim Byron to this important role at the National Archives. The Board congratulates Jim and looks forward to welcoming him back to Yorba Linda when his work is finished. We wish him great success.”
The Richard Nixon Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that owns and co-operates the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum campus with the National Archives.
The Nixon Foundation encourages and supports scholarship, sponsors programs that engage the public with American history and civics, creates and displays special exhibits, and convenes forums for discussion and debate about America’s 37th president.
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