Walmart heir, energy firms could help fund Roosevelt library

摘要

A Walmart heir, a wealthy governor and energy companies profiting from North Dakota oil could fund a big chunkof the private money needed by developers of a presidential library for Theodore Roosevelt in the westernBadlands where he hunted and ranched before becoming the 26th U.S. president.It's unclear how much money might come from the Roosevelt family itself, though at least one descendantlobbied state lawmakers on behalf of the project.Legislators last month approved $50 million to operate the library, but that must be matched by $100 million inprivate money to build it and fund an ongoing project at Dickinson State University to digitize tens of thousandsof Roosevelt's papers.