The debate over the planned memorial to former president Dwight D. Eisenhower has spilled into the pages of the Gray Lady, as the paper dedicated more than a thousand words to the controversy earlier this week.
The design by Frank Gehry "called for a four-acre site partly enclosed by transparent woven metal tapestries displaying images of the Kansas plains, where Eisenhower grew up. The most controversial element was a statue of the young Eisenhower sitting on a low stone wall."
Members of the Eisenhower family wanted to see a more powerful Eisenhower and a memorial that called more attention to the man's accomplishments, calling the design "unworkable." Members of Congress have called the current design "inappropriate" and a "monstrosity," while the National Civic Art Foundation said it was "not salvageable."
Honestly? It's no
FDR memorial. But nor do we understand the fuss.
Read more, and see a rendering of the proposed memorial,
here.