Eisenhower family on memorial: Go back to the drawing board [View all]

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Source: CNN

The controversy over the design of a planned memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower made its way to Capitol Hill on Tuesday.

The House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands held a congressional oversight hearing this morning on the design and development of the proposed memorial.

Speaking on behalf of the Eisenhower family, the late president's granddaughter, Susan Eisenhower, told the committee, "Public debate has demonstrated the American people overwhelmingly endorse the memorial, but they are saying its time to go back to the drawing board and we agree."

The Eisenhower family has publicly voiced opposition to the narrative design created by architect Frank Gehry. The work's central statue depicts Eisenhower as a child gazing at images of himself as the supreme commander of the Allies in Europe and as president from 1953 to 1961. "Dreams of a Barefoot Boy" is a reference drawn from Eisenhower's homecoming speech from World War II.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/20/us/eisenhower-memorial/index.html