On 9/21/022, during the Senate confirmation hearing for President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the National Archives, Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Arkansas questioned Biden nominee Colleen Shogan about a 2007 article in which she examined the ability of three Republican presidents — Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush — to communicate in “anti-intellectual” ways that appeal more to everyday Americans. Hawley contended that Shogan’s article painted a picture that “Republican voters are stupid,” which Shogan repeatedly denied. “You’re extremely partisan. Your record is denigrating two-term Republican presidents,” Hawley said. “Are you saying that Republicans are stupid and Democrats are intellectual?” Hawley asked.
Shogan defended the story, repeatedly saying it was a scholarly piece that focused on the rhetoric of those presidents, specifically in the ways they communicated with the voters and in no way questioned their intellect. She said some of the quotes pulled from the story by the Republican senators were observations made by others, “it’s a piece on rhetoric and it’s a look at how these presidents have been successful in their arguments.”
Shogan contended that her 15 years of nonpartisan service to the government in the Congressional Research Service and Library of Congress and White House Historical Association is proof she isn’t partisan. Hawley questioned how Shogan could assure him, for the 75 million Trump voters, that she would be “truly nonpartisan” in a role that he claimed has become a “very politically challenged position.”
Shogan, a former deputy director at the Library of Congress, was tapped by Biden to take over the government agency best known for housing the Declaration of Independence. Shogan, 46, is the first woman to be nominated US archivist. She is currently senior executive at the White House Historical Association. At the hearing, she promised to modernize the agency and reduce a backlog of requests from veterans who need to prove eligibility for benefits.
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Republicans are stupid & Dems are intellectual? Denigrating GOP presidents, extremely partisan.