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When Air Force One touches down in South Dakota on Friday, President Barack Obama will mark a milestone: He'll have visited all of America's 50 states while in office.
Obama joins just three other presidents thus far Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Richard Nixon to complete the task of visiting each of the states during their time as commander-in-chief.
Obama is making a quick stop in South Dakota to give the commencement address at Lake Area Technical Institute's graduation ceremony in Watertown.
One South Dakota resident in particular is sure to be pleased that the president visited; 11-year-old Rebecca sent a letter to Obama in April, describing the best her state had to offer.
http://mashable.com/2015/05/08/obama-travels-a-lot/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link
malaise
(267,805 posts)Too cute
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)postulater
(5,075 posts)So four of eleven is not a surprise.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Lol.
And the southest.
postulater
(5,075 posts)I do love the Dakotas though.
They are just plain raw.
Beastly hot. Deathly cold. Wind that never quits. A horizon that goes forever. The amberest of waves of grain. The baddest of badlands. And the Blackest of Black Hills.
Sacred ground for sure.
I shudder to think of the destruction going on there by the oil industry.