owe, under the presidential records act, the white house must preserve all memos, letters, papers that the president touches sending them to the national archives for safekeeping as historical records this. headline caught our attention. quote, meet the guys who tape president trump s papers back together. political reporting armed with ro of clear scotch tape, the colleagues would sift through large piles of shredded paper and put them back together like a jigsaw puzzle. sometimes they would be split down the middle but other times they were so small. it is a painstaking process that was the result of a clash between old hbts and president trump s habits of ripping up