Yeah, well, we've never really had a South Dakotan become a member of the President's Cabinet. Okay, so assuming she's confirmed, she'll be the first. There was a Secretary of Clinton P. Anderson was a Secretary of Agriculture in the 1940s in the Truman administration. and he was born and raised in Centerville, but then left the state, lived in New Mexico. He was a congressman from New Mexico, member of Truman's cabinet. (13:21)
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