He said the effort was intended to send “a positive message reminding us of who we are and also reminding us that when we are in disarray, when we’re at loggerheads, people overseas are also looking at us and wondering what’s going on.” He also said it was necessary to remind Americans that their democracy cannot be taken for granted. Kramer said the former president “did see and signed off on this statement.” The push for the joint statement was spearheaded by David Kramer, executive director of the George W. The foundation said each presidential entity had its own programs related to democracy. It would be the first common statement that the presidential centers and foundations have ever issued as a group, but we have had no collective discussion about it, only an invitation to sign.” The Eisenhower Foundation chose not to sign, and it said in a statement emailed to The Associated Press: “The Eisenhower Foundation has respectfully declined to sign this statement. Valerie Jarrett, former senior adviser to President Barack Obama, speaks during the National Action Network Convention in New York, April 3, 2019. Those organizations all support presidential libraries created under the Presidential Library Act of 1955, along with the Eisenhower Foundation. Bush Presidential Center and the Obama Foundation. Ford Presidential Foundation, the Carter Center, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, the George & Barbara Bush Foundation, the Clinton Foundation, the George W. Kennedy Library Foundation, the LBJ Foundation, the Richard Nixon Foundation, the Gerald R. The bipartisan statement was signed by the Hoover Presidential Foundation, the Roosevelt Institute, the Truman Library Institute, the John F. “We don’t have to go much farther than January 6 to realize that we are in a perilous state.”Įfforts to suppress or weaken voter turnout are of special interest to the LBJ Foundation, Updegrove said, given that President Lyndon Johnson considered his signing of the Voting Rights Act his “proudest legislative accomplishment.” “I think there’s great concern about the state of our democracy at this time,” said Mark Updegrove, president and CEO of the LBJ Foundation, which supports the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. Thursday’s statement stopped short of calling out individuals, but it still marked one of the most substantive acknowledgments that people associated with the nation’s former presidents are worried about the country’s trajectory. GOP presidential candidates stand behind their podiums during the CNN Republican presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, Calif., on Sept.
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