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&#x27;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, <i>Acela tickets</i>, (b) he wasn&#x27;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&#x27;s retiring.<p>Wikipedia doesn&#x27;t usually mince words around this, and in the five months since his retirement, nobody has thought to add a &quot;Criticism&quot; section.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;James_H._Billington" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;James_H._Billington</a>