Trump Administration fires the librarian of the congress

The Trump government released the Congress Librarian Carla D. Hayden on Thursday and pulled a quick outcry from Democrats. Dr. Hayden was the first African American and the first woman who acted as head of the institution.

Dr. Hayden, who was appointed the 14th librarian of the congress by President Barack Obama in 2016, had monitored the library by President Trump's first term. The library, the oldest cultural institution in the USA, rarely receives a new guide. Dr. Hayden was the first since 1987.

According to one by Senator Martin Heinrich from New Mexico, the top democrat for the subcommittee for the legislative, published screenshot by Senator Martin Heinrich from New Mexico, published by Senator Martin Heinrich from New Mexico, she was released in a two-second email that corresponds to the deputy director of the White House.

“In the name of President Donald J. Trump, I write to inform you that your position as librarian of the congress is immediately ended effectively,” said the e -mail without quoting one thing. “Thanks for your service.”

A spokesman for the Congress library, Roswell Encina, confirmed shooting. Dr. Hayden, 72, declined to make a comment.

Representative Hakeem Jeffries from New York, the democratic minority leader, made an explanation in which Dr. Hayden was described as a “accomplished, fundamental and respected” leader of the library.

“Donald Trump's unjust decision to relieve Dr. Hayden in an e -mail sent by a random political hack is a shame and the youngest in his constant efforts to prohibit books, to ban American history Whitwash history and to turn back the clock,” said Jeffries.

Mr. Morse did not immediately answer a request for a comment.

Since his return to office, President Trump has been quick to establish control of American cultural institutions to take over the John F. Kennedy Center for the performing arts and to explain the Ivy League to war.

An advance of storing evidence of diversity and inclusion led to one side to Jackie Robinson's life and military career, which temporarily disappeared from the Pentagon website. Arlington National Cemetery's websites, in which the graves of black and female service members were highlighted. Books, including “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Harper Lee's novel about racism in the south of depression, were distracted by the Ministry of Defense, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

In the congress library, which describes itself as the largest library in the world, houses millions of objects with collections of books on foreign languages ​​and world history as well as music, films and newspapers. It serves as a research low of the congress and is accessible to the public.

Representative Rosa Delauro, the best democrat of the appropriation committee, said Dr. Hayden was widely admired by members of the congress.

“Your dismissal is not just an affront in her historical service, but a direct attack on the independence of one of our most revered institutions,” said Ms. Delauro in a statement.

Dr. Hayden became the librarian of the congress after a long run as a chief librarian in Baltimore, her long -time home, where she had revised the city's fighting public library system.

She had known Mr. Obama as a librarian in the Chicago Public Library since her early days. She started in 1973 as a librarian in Chicago and finally became the city's main librarian.

But she appreciated the library of the congress, which she described as a “treasure chest”, special appreciation.

“It's like heaven,” she said in a video published by the Obama White House when she was nominated as a librarian of the congress. In the video she thought about her status as the first female and first black librarian of the congress and said that her selection “what a national library can be”.

“It's inclusive,” she said. “It can be part of the story. I believe in what libraries can be for a civilized society, and a country that is open to everyone.”

Catie Edmondson And Emily Cochrane Reported reports.