The character assassination of the outgoing librarian (which is the bulk of this article) is pretty tasteless. The substance of the criticism is (a) the WaPo do

The character assassination of the outgoing librarian (which is the bulk of this article) is pretty tasteless. The substance of the criticism is (a) the WaPo doesn't think that a fundraising programme he ran wasn as successful as it might have been (but still raised millions), compared to nothing, based entirely on a listing of scary-sounding expense reports, which includes, shockingly, Acela tickets, (b) he wasn't great on tech, which is a legitimate criticism, but hardly unique among senior government figures born in 1929, and (c) unnamed employee sources, and a single named 10-years retired employee, were happy he's retiring. Wikipedia doesn't usually mince words around this, and in the five months since his retirement, nobody has thought to add a "Criticism" section. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Billington https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Billington