“We made a mistake,” the institution said in a statement, as per The Guardian. “As the National Archives of the United States, we are and always have been completely committed to preserving our archival holdings without alteration.”

It added: “This photo is not an archival record held by the National Archives, but one we licensed to use as a promotional graphic. Nonetheless, we were wrong to alter the image.

“We have removed the current display and will replace it as soon as possible with one that uses the unaltered image. We apologize, and will immediately start a thorough review of our exhibit policies and procedures so that this does not happen again.”

A spokeswoman told The Post that as a “non-partisan, non-political federal agency” it had blurred the references to the president’s name “so as not to engage in current political controversy”.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words – presumably, only where the photo hasn’t been digitally altered to avoid “political controversy”.

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