Posted on Jul 27, 2015
Does Dwight D. Eisenhower deserve a National Memorial? Bob Dole is leading the fight!
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Former Senator Bob Dole led the effort to raise more than $170 million for the privately funded WWII memorial that opened in 2004. Now, his mission is to get a memorial built for Dwight D. Eisenhower, whom Dole served under in Italy. He considers Eisenhower, a fellow Kansan, “one of the great Americans.” It’s a view, he believes, shared by many WWII vets.
It will take all of Dole’s political skill to succeed. Authorized by Congress in 1999, the Eisenhower Memorial slogged through the federal regulatory process. This month, famed architect Frank Gehry’s modified design received final approval from the National Capital Planning Commission, weeks after another federal agency, the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, gave its final approval.
But even those milestones were tarnished. Eisenhower’s family, led by granddaughter Susan Eisenhower, has never embraced the design. As a result, two congressional appropriations committees declined to provide any of the $68 million that the Eisenhower Memorial Commission sought for construction for 2016. By law, construction can’t begin until full funding is in hand.
“It simply defies logic and decency to design and build a memorial to Dwight Eisenhower without obtaining the approval of the Eisenhower family,” Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), chairman of the appropriations subcommittee with jurisdiction over the project, told The Washington Post last month.
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It will take all of Dole’s political skill to succeed. Authorized by Congress in 1999, the Eisenhower Memorial slogged through the federal regulatory process. This month, famed architect Frank Gehry’s modified design received final approval from the National Capital Planning Commission, weeks after another federal agency, the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, gave its final approval.
But even those milestones were tarnished. Eisenhower’s family, led by granddaughter Susan Eisenhower, has never embraced the design. As a result, two congressional appropriations committees declined to provide any of the $68 million that the Eisenhower Memorial Commission sought for construction for 2016. By law, construction can’t begin until full funding is in hand.
“It simply defies logic and decency to design and build a memorial to Dwight Eisenhower without obtaining the approval of the Eisenhower family,” Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), chairman of the appropriations subcommittee with jurisdiction over the project, told The Washington Post last month.
Read the entire article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/how-bob-dole-is-leading-the-fight-for-ike/2015/07/23/f783cde8-2fad-11e5-8 [login to see] 949f4_story.html
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We already have a "few" depending on how you look at it.
We have the Eisenhower Interstate System for one. Our Roads are quite literally named after the man. There is also the Eisenhower Executive Office building in DC.
Though I am all for honoring People, I have issues regarding Persons. I would rather We as Americans honor our accomplishments, and remember our failures. This is not to say we shouldn't remember our heroes. We have many of them, but for every one of these memorials we build there is just less space available for others. This is a matter or resources.
In this regards, I take the same stance that I take with currency. Rather than People, use Events, or Locations.
It is however admirable what the People, the Hon. Dole, and the family is trying to do. Pres. Eisenhower deserves to be remembered, however his legacy is strong, and four acres is not going to change that.
We have the Eisenhower Interstate System for one. Our Roads are quite literally named after the man. There is also the Eisenhower Executive Office building in DC.
Though I am all for honoring People, I have issues regarding Persons. I would rather We as Americans honor our accomplishments, and remember our failures. This is not to say we shouldn't remember our heroes. We have many of them, but for every one of these memorials we build there is just less space available for others. This is a matter or resources.
In this regards, I take the same stance that I take with currency. Rather than People, use Events, or Locations.
It is however admirable what the People, the Hon. Dole, and the family is trying to do. Pres. Eisenhower deserves to be remembered, however his legacy is strong, and four acres is not going to change that.
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