JONATHAN MARTIN , Politico; North Dakota Power Trio Opens Up About Trump, the Filibuster and Teddy Roosevelt
"Roosevelt’s birthplace in Manhattan’s Flatiron and his sprawling Oyster Bay summer estate on Long Island are both run by the National Park Service. Yet because he served before the National Archives took over the presidential library system, Roosevelt was the most famous American president post-Lincoln without his own dedicated library.
Enter Burgum, Gov. Kelly Armstrong, Sen. Kevin Cramer and the other North Dakotans who saw opportunity — and dollar signs — at the foot of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park here.
Raising over $350 million, overwhelmingly from private donors, the North Dakotans met their goal of opening the library for America’s 250th birthday. And it is a gem. Sitting atop a butte, with a beige color matching the sandstone land, Teddy’s temple offers resplendent views outside and a vivid, high-tech retelling of his life therein. As the remarkably lifelike AI Roosevelt inside might say, he’d be “deeee-lighted.”"
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