Susan Eisenhower is expected to testify before a House subcommittee on national parks to object designs for her grandfather’s memorial in Washington, D.C. Officials from the National Park Service and Eisenhower Memorial Commission are also set to testify during the hearing on Tuesday, along with interested groups. Frank Gehry, a prominent architect, was hired by the memorial commission to design the memorial near the National Mall.
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s granddaughter says that the memorial design focuses too much on his humble roots rather than his accomplishments. Gehry proposes a memorial park framed by large metal tapestries that will depict America’s 34th president’s boyhood home in Kansas. Two large carved stones would illustrate Eisenhower as president and as a World War II hero. A statue of a young Eisenhower would show him gazing at what his life became.
