Trump to visit newly built Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota’s Badlands
The library opens to the public on Saturday, with private previews this week and organizers expecting 5,000 to 10,000 visitors a day.
- On Wednesday, July 1, President Donald Trump arrives in Medora, North Dakota, to dedicate the $450 million Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, championed by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.
- The 96,000 square-foot facility honors Roosevelt, who ranched in North Dakota during the 1880s; private donors contributed about $354 million toward the project's $100 million fundraising goal.
- Preparing for 5,000 to 10,000 daily visitors, Medora officials mobilized more than 100 volunteers and launched remote parking shuttles to manage traffic in the town of 120.
- Exhibits will feature Roosevelt's Rough Riders uniform and 1884 diary alongside acknowledgments of his "horrific comments" about Native Americans, Library Executive Director Robbie Lauf said, providing comprehensive historical perspective.
- Trump plans to visit South Dakota's Mount Rushmore on Friday for Independence Day fireworks, while conservation groups criticized the administration for policies they say contradict Roosevelt's conservation principles.
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Trump to debut new Air Force One on trip to Theodore Roosevelt museum dedication
MEDORA, North Dakota - President Donald Trump travels to North Dakota on Wednesday to dedicate a museum honoring Theodore Roosevelt, invoking the Republican president's legacy as he promotes a message of American greatness ahead of the Fourth of July holiday.
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Trump to visit newly built Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota's Badlands
President Donald Trump will visit North Dakota on Wednesday to see the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, a massive facility exploring the 26th president’s life, built in the rugged, lonely landscape where the young easterner built his conservation values while ranching and hunting in the 1880s.
Medora quiet on eve of presidential visit, library events
MEDORA, N.D. — Though Medora was quiet on Tuesday, June 30, anticipation was building for the days ahead. Around the town of fewer than 150 people, the final preparations were being made for the thousands of visitors expected to flood the town for the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. The first visitors milled about while volunteers put up red, white and blue decorations — the finishing touches for the upcoming July 4th cel…
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