{"id":1910289,"date":"2023-04-05T19:12:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T23:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-theodore-roosevelt-presidential-library-is-long-overdue\/"},"modified":"2023-04-05T19:18:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T23:18:37","slug":"the-theodore-roosevelt-presidential-library-is-long-overdue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-theodore-roosevelt-presidential-library-is-long-overdue\/","title":{"rendered":"The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Is Long Overdue"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-theodore-roosevelt-presidential-library-is-long-overdue%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1910289&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Despite more than 100 years passing since Theodore Roosevelt&#8217;s death, his legacy continues on through the upcoming opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, slated for 2026. Situated in proximity to Roosevelt\u2019s ranch and hunting grounds in the North Dakota Badlands, the library will be the first and only presidential library accessible by horseback or bike. <\/p>\n<p>In January, Harold Hamm, an oil tycoon, donated $50 million as a catalyst for construction, with the hope of attracting other donors to fund the project. According to Ed O\u2019Keefe, CEO of the library, \u201cWe are still actively fundraising\u2026 Harold\u2019s gift is a game-changer, and we want everyone to get in the arena for the T.R. Library.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The library is a fitting tribute to Roosevelt&#8217;s legacy as a conservationist and cowboy president. As president, Roosevelt established 150 national forests, 51 federal bird reserves, four national game reserves, and five national parks, doubling the size of the National Park system in the White House after formative years in the American West. He was instrumental in developing Western water resources and played a significant role in creating the U.S. Forest Service. <\/p>\n<p>Located across 90 acres of U.S. Forest Service land near Theodore Roosevelt National Park, the proximity to this park will make the library one of the most visited presidential libraries in the USA. Moreover, the location reinforces Roosevelt&#8217;s conservationist legacy by paying homage to him as \u201cthe conservation president.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Roosevelt&#8217;s formative time in North Dakota makes it a more fitting destination for his presidential library than New York City, where he served as governor. The official Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library webpage states, \u201cT.R. was a New Yorker by chance, and a North Dakotan by choice. He was an easterner and a westerner but, above all, he was quintessentially American.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The tradition of presidential libraries began in 1939 when Roosevelt&#8217;s cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, donated presidential records to the federal government to be archived. Since then, every president, except Donald Trump, has established a presidential library. <\/p>\n<p>The library\u2019s collection will include Roosevelt&#8217;s original manuscripts, letters, and photographs, as well as interactive exhibits and immersive galleries that will highlight not only his presidential accomplishments but also his conservation and Naturalist values. Visitors will also enjoy viewing Roosevelt\u2019s ten-foot-tall equestrian statue, which infamous because it depicts him flanked by an Indian man and a Black man, which caused controversy for its supposed glorification of American colonialism. New York\u2019s Museum of Natural History took down the statue, and North Dakota officials agreed to display it at the library while providing appropriate contextualization.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d0e4d75072521e9a293a2adc92a85494 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d0e4d75072521e9a293a2adc92a85494\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\nTristan Justice, the author of Social Justice Redux, is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He graduated from George Washington University, where he majored in political science and minored in journalism.\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/american-west\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">American West<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/badlands\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Badlands<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/new-york\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">New York<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/new-york-city\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">New York City<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/north-dakota\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">North Dakota<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/th \n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 years after the iconic president\u2019s death, in 2026, the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library will be open to the public. It will be the first and only presidential library where you can arrive by horseback or bike. In January, North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum announced a $50 million donation from oil tycoon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1910290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[5318,21887,3849,23619,23618],"class_list":["post-1910289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-library","tag-overdue","tag-presidential","tag-roosevelt","tag-theodore"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1910290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}