Todd Arrington, the director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, stepped down this week after a dispute with the Trump administration over gifting a sword in the museum’s collection to King Charles, according to multiple news reports .

Arrington, an Army veteran and career historian who previously held posts with the National Archives and Records Administration and National Park Service — most recently at the James A. Garfield National Historic Site in Ohio — was told Monday by an unnamed supervisor to “resign or be fired.” Arrington stepped down.

“I was obviously shocked and saddened and heartbroken,” Arrington said in an interview with the Kansas News Service . “I have almost 30 years of government service. I’ve never had a bad mark against me.”

Arrington began his t

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