the badlands was the discovery of america. up until that time, he had made family trips to egypt.had traveled europe, he certainly had spent time on the eastern seaboard, lived in new york, went to school in harvard, went hunting in maine. but seeing the badlands and capturing what some people call the closing of the frontier or the end of a certain era out here, it gave him a taste of what it was like at the battle of little bighorn, or what it would have been like, while he was out here, to have sitting bull still alive at a reservation not far away, and to have buffalo herds, the last indigenous ones still roaming freely. he improved as a horse rider. he became a better shot out here. but more importantly, he started building his physical stamina up and his strength. so he used to say, roosevelt, that without north dakota, i wouldn't have been president. what he really was saying was without those experiences in self-reliance, he wouldn't have had the fortitude to go forward and put together the rough riders, which was made up of great plains cowboys and harvard dandies, in som

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it could move to the badlands of the poor property. i do not know that there is anything that we want to get rid of other than the power plants, sewage plants, asphalt plants, things that you do not want to grow. there are things that can move, but i think they need to stay in the city, but they can be different. >> unless we do something drastic and severe for this community, it is not going to survive. not only for us, but it is not going to survive for a lot of you folks that are moving in here. and >> district and has a reputation as one of the city's most dangerous areas. we asked if the notoriety is valid and inquire about the district's crime problem. >>, as an issue that happens everywhere citizens go. we tend to blame the folks who have to look at what surrounds them, what the environment has the right. the environment has been neglected. poor schools, poor health, and food, poor housing, so we have to take some response ability for that. >> the reason some of the temperance flare-up is not because we have and lack of jobs, no

. >>> the skull was found last summer by a 7-year-old girl visiting badland's national park. she was at the hospital yesterday to watch the whole procedure. >>> a central valley woman will be in the bay area to look for her long lost father. her father marty christianson lived in san francisco for several years. sf weekly profiled him in an article of people looking for a place to live after that terminal was demolished. >> he's a very intelligent guy. he read the papers daily, he was very well versed and could you know, he was very self- reflective of how he had gotten into this situation. >> i at least want to see him and actually want to say i met my dad at least once when he's alive and i'm alive. >> reporter: christianson told the paper he was a heavy drinker and assumed his family did not want to see him. his daughter's visit this week proved his wrong. >>> and charlie sheen has admitted himself to rehab. there are reports sheen was intoxicated and complaining of chest and abdominal pain. >>> if you are interested in making some extra cash while appearing in a hollywood

as a matter of fact, about 25 years ago i was a rancher in the badlands and a reporter from the "washington post" interviewed me and he wrote that i kept on -- kept up on politics by watching c-span, which i did at that time. hard to get on the program. something that wasn't mentioned this morning about important stories, one i would like to comment about. the death commission report. they reported the serious situation that we are in and what we need to do. well, we didn't -- we are not doing it but let me go back a little bit. what we should be discussing is how did we get into this mess and how are we going to get out of it. well, i want to go back to to president reagan. i was very strong for ronald reagan for president. but when he got in i was disappointed. i read an article recently from way back, a magazine i had years a ago, back there about 1983 -- or 1994. by ron paul talking about -- he mentioned ronald reagan, a man that talked conservatively but now we were going to have a huge deficit the rest of his term, which we did. anyway, ron paul was talking about taxes and the economy