Eisenhower's Family Objects to Memorial Design

Newser ^ | Feb 7 2012 | John Johnson

[WilliamIII]

A memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower is scheduled to be unveiled on the Washington Mall in 2015, but first a thorny dispute needs to be resolved between Eisenhower's family and renowned architect Frank Gehry. Ike's relatives think Gehry's design—which features a statue of Eisenhower as boy in Kansas looking out on vistas of his future accomplishments—as a country bumpkin. They are demanding changes before the project moves forward, and Gehry has yet to comment publicly, notes the New York Times. (The AP had a similar story last month.)

“He was chief of staff of the Army; he was a two-term president of the United States,” says a granddaughter, Susan Eisenhower. “It’s in those roles that America has gratitude for him, not as being a young boy with a great future in front of him.” The National Capital Planning Commission, which must sign off on the design, has received a letter from the relatives and said only that it "appreciates the comments provided by the Eisenhower family." Groundbreaking is scheduled to start this year.

[matthew fuller]

I saw that- and it’s very confusing because it was designated by the Four star insignia. And the difference is General of the Armies vs General of the Army.

[ketelone]

Will the Obama memorial show him peering out at his achievements as a boy, from a hut in Kenya?

[ConorMacNessa]

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower addressing paratroopers of the
101st Airborne Division before D-Day Normandy



Etiam non princeps sed usque ad genua, Principis Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Oztrich Boy]

What’s next?

A statue of a young Muslim boy in Indonesia looking out over vistas of his future accomplishments (or just looking out)

[Pelham]

“Better idea, a depiction of Eisenhower standing on that English airfield on the night of June 5, 1944 surrounded by his American paratroopers.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eisenhower_d-day.jpg

[Pelham]

FDR wanted those promotions so that the American commanders would have rank equal to their British counterparts, in order to prevent a character like Montgomery from refusing to obey someone like Eisenhower.

[piasa]

A tot version of the "messiah" surrounded by what appear to be frangipani bushes...LOL.

They are a very fragrant flowering shrub or small tree which in Asia is planted around sacred temples. How appropriate. On the other hand, a relative used to grow those things down here in the south. We could never remember the word "frangipani" so we called them d__k trees because that's what their thick stubby branches look like when the frost has zapped off the leaves. Fits Obama, too.

[Oztrich Boy]

On the other hand, a relative used to grow those things down here in the south. We could never remember the word "frangipani" so we called them d__k trees because that's what their thick stubby branches look like when the frost has zapped off the leaves.

Well, that's your problem.

In Australia our frangipani are different