Why should the Eisenhower memorial be over twice the size of WWII Memorial? Why should it be so vast as to comfortably house two Lincoln Memorials, two Washington Monuments, and two Jefferson Memorials - all six at once?
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What makes the Lincoln Memorial so powerful is that it doesn't try to do too much. In effect, it says that he saved the Union.
If you look at the history of presidential memorials, it takes a long time to get them done.
Every memorial in its time has a different goal.
It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century.
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.
I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.
The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemic, the center of which is not President Eisenhower or Washington, D.C. but Mr. Gehry and the values he promulgates.
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
I'm not a historian who thinks Confederate memorials should be boarded up.