{"id":1651353,"date":"2022-09-21T12:57:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T16:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1651353"},"modified":"2022-09-21T12:57:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T16:57:47","slug":"us-archivist-nominee-defends-denigrating-republican-presidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-archivist-nominee-defends-denigrating-republican-presidents\/","title":{"rendered":"US Archivist Nominee Defends Denigrating Republican Presidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-archivist-nominee-defends-denigrating-republican-presidents%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1651353&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee to be the next U.S. archivist defended on Sept. 21 denigrating Republican presidents and asserted she can be nonpartisan if confirmed by the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Colleen Shogan, the head of the\u00a0White House Historical Association who was an aide for former Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), was confronted by Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) about her writings and social media posts during a confirmation hearing in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/20446425\">an article<\/a> titled \u201cAnti-Intellectualism in the Modern Presidency: A Republican Populism,\u201d Shogan wrote that former President Ronald Reagan had \u201cless than impressive intellectual capabilities\u201d and \u201cit is widely accepted that George W. Bush was less intelligent than his challenger, Al Gore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both Reagan and Bush were Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can we be assured that you will serve effectively in this nonpartisan role?\u201d Portman wondered after reading portions of the article.<\/p>\n<p>Shogan said she stood by her career at the Congressional Research Service, the Library of Congress, and the historical association. \u201cAnd\u00a0invite anybody to talk to the people I have worked with for years in my nonpartisan government service,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Shogan also posted on Twitter about then-President Donald Trump, including a missive on Jan. 5, 2020. \u201cIsn\u2019t the next move over self-pardon?\u201d Shogan wrote at the time.<\/p>\n<p>That implied Trump committed criminal acts, Portman said.<\/p>\n<p>Shogan repeated that she would be apolitical if confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Hawley was not convinced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou wrote an article basically saying that Republican voters are stupid, that Republican presidents deliberately appeal to anti-intellectualism. You roll it all up in Republican populism, yet you\u2019re trying to present yourself as a nonpartisan,\u201d he said. \u201cIn fact, you\u2019re an extreme partisan, and your record shows that. You\u2019re someone who has denigrated Republican presidents\u2014every two-term Republican president since the Second World War and their voters in this lengthy article.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen.\u00a0Shelley Moore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee to be the next U.S. archivist defended on Sept. 21 denigrating Republican presidents and asserted she can be nonpartisan if confirmed by the Senate. Colleen Shogan, the head of the\u00a0White House Historical Association who was an aide for former Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), was confronted by Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1651353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}