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TR’s Presidential Library Comes to Life in North Dakota

TR’s Presidential Library Comes to Life in North Dakota
A painting of Theodore Roosevelt at his desk writing the Panama Canal Zone document, circa 1922. Public Domain
Salena Zito
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MEDORA, N.D.—When you come into the Badlands—as opposed to the approach to the Rocky Mountains—the ground dramatically dips. It’s here that you can experience the same views that a 24-year-old Theodore Roosevelt found when he arrived in 1883, determined to kill a buffalo and experience the American West, which he understood was quickly disappearing.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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