A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION, Inviting President Donald J. Trump to visit the State of South Dakota, and most especially to visit Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse Monument.

    WHEREAS, many United States presidents have visited the great State of South Dakota and especially the world famous Mount Rushmore; and

    WHEREAS, President Calvin Coolidge, in 1927 helped dedicate the start of the presidential carvings on the mountain, and President Franklin Roosevelt, in 1936 visited the mountain and spoke at the dedication of the Jefferson head; and

    WHEREAS, President George H.W. Bush visited Mount Rushmore in 1991 to speak at the fiftieth anniversary of the conclusion of the carvings of the presidents; and

    WHEREAS, the immense mountain carving of significant Native American leader, Crazy Horse, is in close proximity to Mount Rushmore, and the Native American population has played and continues to play an important role in the growth and development of the state:

    NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Senate of the Ninety-Second Legislature of the State of South Dakota, the House of Representatives concurring therein, that the South

Dakota Legislature hereby invites President Donald J. Trump to visit the great State of South Dakota and to spend time in the Black Hills viewing Mount Rushmore, America's shrine of democracy, and the emerging carving of Crazy Horse; and

    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the South Dakota Legislature hereby encourages Governor Dennis Daugaard, United States Senator John Thune, United States Senator Mike Rounds, United States Representative Kristi Noem and their staffs to promote such a visit and to suggest that it would be particularly appropriate for the visit to take place on or near the fourth of July.