 President Carlos Menem appointed O'Donnell Ambassador to Bolivia and Paraguay, as well as Secretary of Culture.He was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in 2001.He is currently engaged on the diffusion of Argentine historical knowledge, being part of the "neorevisionist" school which contests the official reading of history imposed in Argentina (democracy being restored only in 1983), and hosted the television show "Historia confidencial" (Confidential History) with fellows historians José Ignacio García Hamilton and Felipe Pigna.