--- title: James Comey Fired: National Archives Reviewing Nixon Tweet description: The National Archives says it reviewing its training practices since the tweet "was not representative" of its policies canonical: https://time.com/4775033/national-archives-richard-nixon-library-tweet-james-comey/ author: Aric Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-10T22:33:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:51:46.654Z article:section: Politics og:title: National Archives 'Examining' Employee Training Following Nixon Library Tweet og:description: The tweet tried to dispel comparisons between President Trump and Nixon og:url: https://time.com/4775033/national-archives-richard-nixon-library-tweet-james-comey/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt607403920df27f07/6988bdd2ab6d77d9ab6ad293/nixon.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Richard Nixon og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: National Archives 'Examining' Employee Training Following Nixon Library Tweet twitter:description: The tweet tried to dispel comparisons between President Trump and Nixon twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt607403920df27f07/6988bdd2ab6d77d9ab6ad293/nixon.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # National Archives 'Examining' Employee Training After Nixon Library's Trolling Tweet About James Comey > Sponsored content. 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Don Carl Stehhen—Gamma-Rapho / Getty Images by [Aric Jenkins](https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins May 10, 2017 10:33 PM UTC The National Archives is “examining” its employee training methods after the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum — which it oversees — tweeted a “fun fact” regarding [FBI Director James Comey’s firing](http://time.com/4773873/james-comey-fired-whats-next/) on Tuesday. “FUN FACT: President Nixon never fired the Director of the FBI #FBIDirector #notNixonian,” the library tweeted Tuesday evening. The post went viral with more than 50,000 favorites by the following evening. > [](https://twitter.com/NixonLibrary/status/862083605081862145) The National Archives said Wednesday that it will review its training practices since the tweet “was not representative of the polices of the Library of the National Archives,” according to Eric Lach, an editor at the _New Yorker._ “As a Federal government agency, the National Archives does not condone or engage in partisan or political conversations,” a spokesperson from the agency said. “The National Archives is examining the training provided to employees who post to official social media channels as well as reviewing work flows and approval processes to ensure that our social media efforts engage the public in constructive conversations in line with agency policies,” the statement added. > [](https://twitter.com/ericlach/status/862420462848135172) The Nixon Library’s tweet intended to dispel [comparisons](http://time.com/4773388/donald-trump-james-comey-fired-richard-nixon-saturday-night-massacre/) of [President Donald Trump’s firing of Comey](http://time.com/4773237/donald-trump-letter-james-comey-fired/) to President Nixon’s termination of Archibald Cox, a special prosecutor who was looking into the burglary that set off the Watergate scandal in 1973. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4775033/national-archives-richard-nixon-library-tweet-james-comey/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4775033/national-archives-richard-nixon-library-tweet-james-comey/"},"headline":"National Archives 'Examining' Employee Training After Nixon Library's Trolling Tweet About James Comey","datePublished":"2017-05-10T22:33:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:51:46.654Z","description":"The tweet is still online, though","url":"https://time.com/4775033/national-archives-richard-nixon-library-tweet-james-comey/","keywords":["James Comey","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt607403920df27f07/6988bdd2ab6d77d9ab6ad293/nixon.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Aric Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt607403920df27f07/6988bdd2ab6d77d9ab6ad293/nixon.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Richard Nixon","caption":"Richard Nixon In United States In The 1970S -","creditText":"Don Carl Stehhen—Gamma-Rapho / Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/james-comey/","name":"James Comey"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4775033/national-archives-richard-nixon-library-tweet-james-comey/","name":"National Archives 'Examining' Employee Training After Nixon Library's Trolling Tweet About James Comey"}}]}] ```