President Donald Trump is coming to Medora, and Gov. Doug Armstrong will be there to greet him — the occasion being the formal dedication of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library.
Armstrong’s office announced the event Monday, June 30, though no specific dedication date was immediately given. The library, built in the badlands town that sits at the edge of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, has been years in the making and draws on North Dakota’s ties to the 26th president, who ranched in the area during the 1880s.
Few details were released alongside the announcement — no ceremony time, no public attendance information, and no word yet on what access, if any, spectators will have to the Medora site during the presidential visit.
The library’s backers have long argued that Medora, not Washington, is the right home for a Roosevelt memorial, given that the future president credited his time in the North Dakota badlands with shaping his character and conservation philosophy. Whether the federal government’s formal involvement in the dedication signals any broader role for Washington in the library’s operations hasn’t been disclosed.
A schedule for the dedication hasn’t been released publicly.
