Like Ike: Eisenhower Memorial Plans Change
A controversy that was brewing over how to memorialize Dwight Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States, has apparently been settled.
FOX News Radio’s Hank Weinbloom reports:
(Eisenhower Campaign Commercial) “You like Ike, I like Ike, everybody likes Ike.”
Sure, they like Ike…but what a lot of folks didn’t like was the proposed design for a Dwight Eisenhower Memorial in Washington.
Architect Frank Gehry wanted to show Eisenhower as a Kansas farmboy, staring off into the future.
(Eisenhower Speech) “Soldiers, sailors and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force…”
The Eisenhower family and others wanted to highlight Ike’s planning of the D-Day invasion in World War II and his accomplishments as President.
Gehry has now changed his design, and members of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission say they like Ike in the newer version.
Hank Weinbloom, FOX News Radio.
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