President Obama to visit South Dakota, his 50th state
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After his trip next month to South Dakota, President Obama will have visited all 50 states while in office.
On May 8, he will give the commencement address at Lake Area Technical Institute in Watertown. The college's president, Mike Cartney, told NBC News he was "overwhelmed and speechless" when he heard the news Obama will deliver the address. "I cannot even begin to explain the feeling," he said. "This is a once-in-a-lifetime phone call."
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
