The head of the Eisenhower Presidential Library has resigned after clashing with the Trump administration over whether to give Britain’s King Charles an original sword that belonged to the former president and general.

During Donald Trump’s state visit to the U.K., the president gave the British monarch a replica of a sword that had belonged to President Dwight Eisenhower.

It is not clear who had decided on the historic sword, from the collection of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home, but first lady Melania Trump was in charge of selecting gifts for the trip, CBS News reported.

But then-director Todd Arrington, a career historian, argued against giving away an artifact that had been donated to the library and was the property of the American people,

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