Posted on 09/12/2015 9:44:29 AM PDT by lbryce
Longtime Kansas Sen. Bob Dole is planning an ambitious fundraising effort to build the long-debated Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, and he will have help from Tom Hanks, Tom Brokaw and others.
Dole told The Associated Press on Friday that he aims to raise $150 million in private funds, if necessary, to build the memorial after more than 15 years of planning. Critics of the memorial's design have stalled funding in Congress.
The 92-year-old World War II veteran says it's time to honor "Ike," the 34th president and supreme Allied commander during World War II. Organizers hope to create "I Still Like Ike" clubs nationwide to support the memorial.
"Personally, Eisenhower was my hero," said Dole, who also called him one of the greatest men in U.S. history. "... So I decided that we just need to go out and raise the money privately and get the memorial built for this great American."
The memorial should have been built by now, Dole said, considering Congress authorized the project about 16 years ago. But objections from the Eisenhower family and other critics slowed the process of winning approval for the design by architect Frank Gehry.
Critics won't stop Eisenhower's memorial, though, Dole said, even if they have "poisoned the well" among influential Republicans in Congress.
"To heck with 'em," he said. "We're going to go ahead and build it." Eisenhower wouldn't want taxpayers paying for his memorial anyway, Dole said.
"It's been 70 years since the end of World War II, and some of us older guys would like to be there for the dedication," he said.
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Everybody gotta get his, every war has to get its museum and Presidents being presidents get to have their own museum/library simply as part of the tradition of this country and if you're a president and Supreme Allied Commander that's a certain.
But honestly, I shudder to think how a fraudulent. felonious American faux-president, whose enmity and revulsion for the country he led, led down the road to perdition is going to be portrayed.There's no doubt that some day, one day, he will follow in the same tradition and have a museum/library that exemplifies his presidency. Probably be along the lines of a gay bar, selling weed in the back and free viagra.
Bob Dole said if there was any shortfall in the $150 million required to build the Eisenhower Museum, he would simply stiffen his resolve and use some of the free samples of Cialis, the Erectile Dysfunction medication he received for promoting the ninety degree angle wonder to raise the difference.
Now speaking of every war getting its own museum, that's really not that common. I went ahead and checked for the ten most obscure wars in history simply out of curiosity and not because I thought they had some sort of museum in their name and honor. I've listed the ten most obscure wars in history, names only but I've also included the page where if the name of the war intrigues you, and intrigue it will, you can go check it out.
Listverse:Ten Most Obsure Wars
Northern Crusades
1147 – Roughly 1290
War of Jenkins’ Ear
1739 – 1748
War of Jenkins' Ear should really not be considered obscure. It was a fully fledged war with combatants having their own personally tailored uniforms, and the very latest in military technology of the day.
< sarcasm off
I didn't even bother checking about a war with an ear involved.
Quasi-War
1798 – 1800
The Quasi War was either seemingly, apparently but not really or it was a domestic family squabble over who gets to keep the remains of Quasimodo.
Third Punic War
149 BC – 146 BC
First Barbary War
1801 – 1805
Sonderbund War
November 3 – 29, 1847
Indian and European Front
American Revolution – 1778 – 1783
Aleutian Islands Campaign
1942 – 1943
Soviet-Japanese War
August 9 – September 2, 1945
Anglo-Zanzibar War
August 27, 1896
Funny how liberals like Hanks and Brokaw love Republicans AFTER they lose.
Please clarify your statement. Eisenhower won two terms to the presidency. He hadn’t lost in any way.
Dole. Everybody loved him after he lost to Clinton in 96.
Oh, you were probably referring to Bob Dole.I got it. I apologize.
It is little wonder the project was delayed and the family upset if Gherty was the architect the government chose. He is a walking disaster.
War of Jenkins Ear, War of Austrian succession very important in the run up to Seven Years War ( French and Indian War) and the Revolutionary War.
Have you seen the renderings of it?
It’s beyond awful.
And it wasn’t just the family who have objected to it.
Read
http://www.eisenhowermemorial.net/eisenhower-family-letters-calling-halt-ike-memorial
Ignoring congress the architect and other moon bats choose barefoot farm boy as the theme.
Good ole Pineapple Bob!
When Hanks and Brokaw are involved what could possibly go wrong.
Maybe insisting on having design and location privileges?
I think he was talking about Dole.................B^)
Tom Brokejaw has appropriated the subject of WWII.
The only thing that liberals like Brokejaw are trying to do is ‘reinvent’ their liberal history to appear patriotic by wrapping themselves in our American flag despite having walked all over it most of their lives.
Ike knew what real Leadership meant. He wasn’t a conservative or a left leaning liberal, he was the President of all the people. Wish we could find another like him, but it doesn’t appear to be anyone out there that fits the bill. We’re stuck with too many political wusses. He deserves a monument, he lead us in our greatest era, IMO, it was our national peak! Look where we are today, compared to the Ike era. We lost more than we gained. ( I realize most weren’t here to enjoy it and hadn’t experienced those days. Sorry you missed out.)
The best memorial to Ike would be building the wall across the southern border as a tribute to the last American President to actually enforce the laws for the American citizens against fraudulently documented foreigners.
His Operation Wetback needs to be repeated.
I can see why the Eisenhower family would object.
http://www.eisenhowermemorial.net/shocking-tapestry-photos
“I try to rid myself of the burden of culture,” [Gehry] explains. “I’m looking for new ways to approach the work.” His goal, Gehry sums up, is a new “no-rules architecture,” a creative revolution in which “there is no ugly or pretty, no right or wrong.”
Here is a page of this architects loony buildings and concepts. I hate him.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=gehry+projects&go=Submit&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=gehry+projects&sc=5-14&sp=-1&sk=
Hideous. Dole is a clod.
Yes, thank you. I finally did straighten it out in post #5.
I appreciate it.
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