today's hearing we'll hear from susan eisenhower speaking on behalf of the eisenhower family and from representatives of the dwight d. eisenhower memorial commission and federal agencies that produced the current plan. we'll also hear from distinguished private citizens who have examined the appropriate school and want to express their view. this is perhaps a key course in the moment of this monument because the ground breaking is imminent and we must decide would wl to go ahead with the current proposal or pause for future evaluations. the information you hear today will be invaluable in determining the course we take. i am pleased to see that c-span is televising this hearing because i would like ike just ad i want them to hear about the memorial defense secretarily from those who are involved in shaping it. when the ranking member and the this committee appears, we'll give him the opportunity to introduce his opening remarks. in lieu of that we will ask our first witness who is here, who is representing the bozwell of iowa, when i believe is a member of this commission, that is doing that, who has requested to

of the subcommittee, i appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the dwight d. eisenhower memorial. in 199 9 congress authorized the dwight d. eisenhower memorial commission to consider a memorial to our 34th president. that commission is comprised of 12 commissioners, including eight members of congress and previously a member of the eisenhower family. as a result of this commission's work in 2002, congress authorized the commission to establish the eisenhower memorial. since that time the national park service has worked closely with the commission to establish the memorial in accordance with both the authorizing legislation and the co-member rative works act. in our experience, the subjects of memorials can provoke strong emotional responses because while many may agree on the value of commemorating a particular person or event, they may not all agree on the form that commemoration should take. the direction provided by the congress and the co-member mmem works act. federal agencies in determining the location and design of memorials. in the case of the eisenhower memor

we as a family are committed to seeing that a memorial to dwight eisenhower be done in an open, democratic, and transparent way. this is what ike would have wanted. we have been gratified by the public debate that has finally begun and we're grateful to all of those who have worked on the commission and worked on the memorial, especially mr. frank gehry who has graciously interacted with members of the eisenhower family. the public debate has demonstrated that the american people overwhelmingly endorse a memorial, but they are saying it's time to go back to the drawing board and we agree. aside from all the things that have been said in the press and in the internet, we've been inundated with family members about the letters of the unmet challenge of creating a fitting memorial. given this, mr. chairman, the eisenhower family sees no alternative to suggest two remedies, to redesign the eisenhower memorial or call upon the commission to review its staff management and stakeholder policies. first let me address myself to the design. great monuments in our country make simple statements that

i appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the dwight d. eisenhower memorial. in 199 congress authorized the dwight d. eisenhower commission to consider a memorial to our 34th president. that commission is comprised of 12 commissioners including eight members of congress, and previously a member of the eisenhower family. as a result of the work in 2002. congress authorized the commission to establish the eisenhower memorial. since that time the national park service has worked to establish the memorial in with the commemorative works acts. the subjects of nearl can provoik strong emotions. while many agree on the value of a personal event. stha may not agree on the form commemoration should take. the direction provided by the congress has been highly beneficial in guiding decision making by memorial sponsors and federal agencies in determining both the location and design of memorials. in the case of the eisenhower memorial, these federal agencies are the national park service on behalf of the department of the interior. and the commission on fine art

thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discussed the proposed dwight d. eisenhower memorial. gsa is honored to play a role many helping create a memorial to president dwight d. eisenhower. his long a rear of noble service is and should be a source of inspiration to the american people. the commission was tasked with creating an appropriate permanent memorial to perpetuate his memory and contributions to the united states. human resource support, financial and accounting services, legal and contracting support and our role expanded as the commission's vision became clear. given our experience and expertise, the commission asked gsa to help select both a design firm and construction contractor for the memorial. at the request of the commission we used our proven design excellence process to select the design firm. this competitive process seeks the most qualified designers. we seek to contract with the nation's most talented architects, landscape architects and engineers to design projects with outstanding quality and value. as part of this process, gsa utilizes the e

dwight eisenhower built the interstate highway system. republicans helped f.d.r. pass the law that gave millions of returning heroes including my grandfather the chance to go to college on the g.i. bill. [applause] this should not be a partisan idea. and you know what? that same spirit of common purpose that lies at the heart of america, it's still there. it might not be there in washington. but out in america, it's there. it's there where you talk to people on main streets or town halls or v.f.w. halls. it's there when you talk to the members of our armed forces. you go into a church or a synagogue or a mosque, and you'll find out people are supporting each other. and believe in the notion of everyone pulling together. our politics may be divided. but most americans understand that we're in this together. no matter who we are, what we look like, where we come from. what our names are. we rise and fall as one nation. and as one people. and that's what's at stake right now. that's what this election is all about. i know it's been a tough few years. i know the chang

gary's plan for the proposal memorial to dwight eisenhower. for me, ike is still a living memory. his role as supreme commander of the allied forces which freed europe from great evil and two terms of president of the united states are events through which i lived. i hate to say this, mr. chairman, but i was actually walking and not crawling at that time. what about our rising generations who lacked this firsthand memory? what will they know if anything about this great american? to teach them not only about ike and his deeds but to give them a sense of his greatness and the debt we owe him is the task ofmy monument worthy of bearing his name. this mission is admirably summarized in the 1999 law passed by congress ordering that, quote, an appropriate memorial to dwight d. eisenhower should be created to perpetuate his memory and his contributions through the united states. unquote. such a monument should therefore memorialize and educate. in execution of these tasks the gary proposal not only fails but fails ulterly. a unified narrative, a storing if you will, absent in both conce

. >> a lot of people did not want a memorial honoring dwight eisenhower. among those testifying, stephen eisenhower, the 34th president was a granddaughter. she said they would family once the memorial redesign. >> one of the main flaws is that eisenhower pose a contribution to the nation is that the central theme of the design. >> the creator has proposed a moral framed by a large metal tapestries it would feature a statue of a young eisenhowers looking at two large card stone and eisenhower as president and as a world war ii hero. >> the controversial sale of land for a soccer field have put council members in the spotlight a again. >> >> montgomery county executive -- executive faces new scrutiny tonight. >> as ben eisler explains this comes to light following the selling of public land in potomac. >> a county executive has pushed the plan to turn this into a soccer field. many do not want it. >> it was done in secret without anybody puts the knowledge. >> the new deal could stop this and other projects. it would strip the county executive from making u

. >> so frank, you have described this project as an emotional portrait of dwight eisenhower, using the power of architecture, landscape and visual art to tell this life story and to represent his strength and values. and at the same time, paying attention with the balance between respectful and boring. so talk about the boring piece. [ laughter ] >> well, it's hard to comment on that. but i think expressing the man is not boring, and if we do it right, it will resonate and be strong. >> resonate is a good word. the history books have recorded him in a certain way, but this is something i think that we can reflect on in multiple ways. >> i think that there are people that think this is too big a space for eisenhower. he wasn't as important as that space. it's why does he have a space that's bigger than somebody else? he doesn't. he's just going to have a little plank with a little boy. this is just an image to contexturalize and modify the location so that it can accept that little modest piece and not get lost in the hubbub of the city. i think it's going to be very modest. >> you know

dwight eisenhower didn't like giving speeches, and when he did give them he wanted to keep them short. one of the courts i have in my book is eisenhower telling his advisers quote i keep telling you i don't like to do this sort of thing. i can think of nothing more boring for the american public advocacy and their living rooms were whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. another time he said, what is it that needs to be said? i'm not going out there just to listen to my tongue clatter. he said all right, but not over 20 minutes. if you go back and compare, i can do all modern presidents with the earlier ones, the great book on this is the rhetorical presidency. george washington averaged three public speeches at year. john adams, one. thomas jefferson, he was positively verbose i guess i speeches a year as president. james madison, zero. george will has a great joke about this. the british side washing, burn down the white house and he still didn't give a speech last night even andrew jackson who was out with good reason to introduce an element of type living w

dwight eisenhower didn't like giving speeches, and when he did give them he wanted to keep them short. one of the quotes i have in my book is eisenhower telling his advisers, quote, i keep telling you i don't like to do this sort of thing. i can think of nothing more boring for the american public than to have to sit in your living room for half hour looking at my face on their television screens. another time he said what is it that needs to be set? i'm not another just to listen to light on the quarter and then he said fine but not over 20 minutes. if you go back and compare all the modern presidents with our earlier ones, the great bulk of this is jeffrey's but the rhetorical presidency that really covers the transition in great detail. george washington averaged three public speeches a year. john adams one. thomas jefferson, he was positively the ghost of giving five speeches a year as president. james madison, zero. george will has a great book about this he says the british sacked washington board on the white house and he still didn't give a speech. [laughter] and even andrew j

suggested this morning, some of the responsibility or the gratitude for that may well go to dwight eisenhower who really thought that richard nixon needed to have greater experience in understanding some of the constraints and the dynamics of larger organizations, something that mr. nixon really had never had at any point in his career. in terms of the set of strategies, when we talk about the administrative presidency, what we're really talking about are presidents trying to achieve their goals outside of the legislative process. outside of public speaking. outside of communication kinds of devices. instead, they turn to executive branch agencies and executive branch departments as well as to their white house staff and the executive office of the president. in nixon's case, his tools ranged from firing and repositioning particular individuals to introducing and evaluation of the entire executive branch and he did that with management and budget and directed under richard nixon as well as the creation of the domestic council. some of mr. nixon's strategies were more direct relying on appoint

dwight d. eisenhower, but his grand daughters are holding up the project because they want the memorial redesigned. fox's james rosen has this story. >> reporter: his most famous creations like the state center at mit have been fantastic works, but now at 83 world renowned architect frank gary has hit a brick wall in his plans to create a towering figure. dwight d. eisenhower was not only the supreme allied commander during world war ii, conqueror of the nazis and liberator of germany's concentration camps but our president, enforcer of school integration and steadfast cold war sentinel on. tuesday eisenhower's granddaughters conveyed the family's displeasure with frank geary's plans for eisenhower square shoehorned into downtown washington the 4-acre plot punctuated by soaring columns and giant metal fa saids emblazoned with pictures -- facades emblazoned with ike's beloved kansas. after years of going along with the project the granddaughters now object to it. >> the number of people including holocaust

in an editorial on president dwight eisenhower's pending retirement, "life" praised him for giving the community and goodwill of the american people ch recover and grow. the editorial celebrated the construction of 8 million new family homes, rising scholastic test scores and a record-high birth rate. the american people did all these and more. they did them under the benign eyes eisenhower sun, when so many age-old visions of the good life first became real. my sixth character is walt whitman rostile.historian, beca head of national security policy during the 1960s. intelligently and fiercely anti-communist. he urged that the vietnam war be fought to a successful end. unlike most colleagues in the lyndon johnson administration, he never waivered in his faith that america could bear this burden and seep the result. a southeast asia and world free of communist tyranny. undergirding this conclusion was his confidence in the american family. in the mid-1950s, with a carnegie foundation grant, he had conducted a fundamental re-examination of american values and institutions. as reported in

monday, on american history tv, a look at the nation's 34th president, dwight eisenhower and the memorial. and produced by the u.s. army, monday, 8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv here on c-span 3. showing which part of the constitution is

when patton returned from world war i goes to camp colt and this is where he meets a young dwight eisenhower. they talk tank tactics and ideas. beatrice tries to show mimi how to cook. it's not very successful. there was one story i read that eisenhower and patton would go driving around at night with a shotgun in their car looking for trouble. it kind of takes away from the presidential regal eisenhower, and makes it more of a warrior type of story. the tank corps split up. they gave some of the tanks to the infantry, some to the cavalry. some of the cavalrymen said we need to make a separate tank core. patton is not part of this. he does not want to rock the boat. he goes back into the cavalry. so these other officers find an old civil war camp, because they realize if we do this at fort reilly, the others will see this and get rid of it. it was called camp knox. they turned it into a fort, and that's where they start developing tank theory and tactics on a world war ii scale. patton is eventually going to see this and want back in, as the military starts to grow again. he's a referee in a

legislation that was drafted by then general of the army dwight eisenhower and signed into law by president truman. this act set the stage for the contributions of women serving pre korean war and established them permanently in the armed services during and after the war. as dave mentioned, some have referred to the korean war as the forgotten war. but we can never forget the contributions of captain kathy taylor and lieutenants eleanor porter, kathy drake and patricia johnson and sergeant daisy losak, all members of our distinguished panel here today. as a direct result of the extraordinary and indispensable accomplishments of women like these five ladies, further positive changes continue to occur for women both in the military and society at large. i can personally attest to the difficult challenges women in uniform have historically faced due to bias and stigma as i'm sure many of you can. as a young lieutenant i found that despite being fully qualified for a position i sought, my request was turned down because the primary staff officer didn't want females in his director rat because

dwight eisenhower came before the congress in 1955 and said that health insurance could be improved by expanding the scope of the benefits provided. john f. kennedy proposed expanding coverage to the elderly and the mentally ill. by the early 1960s, both presidents eisenhower and kennedy could not say that their hopes of health security had gone forward. but instead they saw, once again, the familiar sight of a dream of health security being stalled by outside interest groups and partisan bickering in the congress. then came presidents lyndon johns johnson, richard nixon and jimmy carter. there was progress made on medicare and medicaid. president nixon came forward with a comprehensive health care reform proposal that built on the employer/employee system. president carter proposed a number of advances and particularly mrs. carter championed the cause of mental health benefits. they too envisioned reforms that would give americans more health security and our nation more economic security. but, like their predecessors, their efforts and their hopes were not realized. so here we are in

. >>> the future of a memorial to president dwight eisenhower will be front and center today on capitol hill. >>> now, let's check in with tony. coming up in just a few moments. we'll get you the latest on today's forecast. some of you may need an umbrella this morning. there are some rain showers out there. even a little thunderstorm activity early this morning. we'll tell you all about that and julie wright will have a look at traffic. stay with us. fox 5 morning news will be right back. q at lysol, we discovered a problem. the more products we touch around the sink, the more dirt can spread around the kitchen, and the more germs we can spread on our hands. that's why we created the lysol no-touch kitchen system. one no-touch solution for sparkling dishes, plus clean surfaces, plus healthy hands. because our mission is a healthy home made simple. lysol. mission for health. not anymore. fiber one is bringing brownies back. at 90 calories, you can have brownies again. ♪ fiber one 90 calorie brownies. in the granola bar aisle. carol. fiber makes me sad. oh common. and

he joined the class to evaluate the evolution of political advertising for the first ads from dwight eisenhower in 1952 to the internet ads to the 2012 presidential campaign. this semester's class is focused on the road to the white house. with a look at issues and events as shaping the current campaign, as well as historical perspective from past presidential elections. this is an hour and 15 minutes. the. >> on behalf of the students joining us at george mason university in fairpax, virginia, and the students at the washington center here in washington, d.c., we want to welcome to the class the author of this book, "air wars: television advertising in election campaigns." darrell west working on his sixth edition. he is a former professor at brown university. thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you. >> as you look at the evolution and the change over the last 670-plus years in tell viz advertising, what strikes you the most? >> the impressive thing is how the technology has changed, when you go back to the 1950s, the early eisenhower ads, they just took film footage and plopped it

a controversial design for a memorial to dwight eisenhower is receiving unanimous support from the federal commission. they say the architect -- the family has complete redesign focuses too much on his childhood in kansas and not enough on his accomplishments as president during theworld war ii. >> we are dealing with heavy delays on the beltway. the inner loop a slow from 295 to eisenhower. 395 is heavy. you see southbound 95 delays from springfield. accidents have all been moved to the shoulder. now let's look at the beltway and take a look and there. leesburg pike to 270. delays from baltimore avenue to annapolis road. springfield to eisenhower. rubberneck delays from the earlier incident. you're slow off and on frenzied of the parkway to 66. -- you are slow off and on up from the bw parkway to 66. >> coming up s 6:00, newt gingrich makes a stop in our area to give votes. [ male announcer ] this was how my day began. a little bird told me about a band... ♪ ♪ an old man shared some fish stories... ♪ ♪ oooh, my turn. ♪ ♪ she was in paris but we talked for hours... everyone else buzzed abo

the action, the spirit of men, dwight d. eisenhower. >> we stand for freedom.s. that is our only commitment to others. john f. kennedy. >> ♪ free free ♪ >> give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teaming shores, send these, your homeless, tempest tossed to me. i lift my lamp to the golden door. >> ♪ [applause] [cheers and applause] >> good mo. supervisor carmen chu, thank you for being here in our city administrator, namely kelly, thank you for being here. of course, our new public works director and his wonderful staff here. thank you very much there is a reason why there's three public works directors on this side. ed risk then, our new mta director, and i have the former public works directors. we're here with muhammed and with our city administrator naomi. one, to get an idea of where we're at with the rebuild of our wonderful general hospital. i need not repeat how important this institution is but to tell you that we are honoring that level of importance by being out here in full dress, bec

under dwight eisenhower it was 91%. we had huge expansion of public education. we had investment in highways and bridges and we made this country work for average-working people. >> we will be right back. don't go anywhere. much more ahead with robert richt. and then super tuesday and attack ads going back and forth. we'll tell how is going after who. and ten states in place. we'll take the political this is countdown south carolina. forgot the name of the show p.m. what makes sam adams boston lager great is as simple as abc. a, the appearance. amber. [ jim ] b, balance. sam adams has malt sweetness hoppy bitterness. [ jim ] c, complexity. pine notes grapefruit notes. only believe your own pallet. go taste them. [[vo]]...we're the idea nobody wants to hear. ...until the truth reveals itself. boat-rockers. and above all... and there's only one place you'll find us. weeknights on current tv. >> we're back with uc berkeley professor, and probably the busiest guy in show business, robert reich. i'll return to one of my favorite subjects, and the president was talkin

when dwight eisenhower, the radical socialist was president, the tax rate was 91% and the country didou said the economy did well in the 50s, i completely disagree. this is important. under eisenhower with that 90% tax top rate that they want to bring back, during the 50s we had three recessions. that's how jack kennedy became president. he ran to get the economy moving again. i got to disagree with the history again. >> 3% average productivity growth. that was pretty good. >> all right, you go, you go. 80% top marginal tax rate. a nobel prize winner says that won't damage the economy. >> i think what dean is missing, even if you accept the fact that the economy did well in the 50s and i agree there were a lot of recessions. kennedy ran on "we can do better." if you have anything near 50, 6 0rks 70, 80% tax rate in the united states, you just see a sapping of all the capital out of the united states. it's interesting, larry, because this idea of a global tax rate, which is what vice president biden was talking about, i think countries like ireland would go crazy over that. they're the

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will family members of dwight eisenhower try to stop a memorial for the late president which features him as a barefoot boy rather than a world leader and war hero. but it does have its fans. back in december it delighted in the feminine sense bill tee. he said, i bet even his name wears glasses. "gary produces a design with several hierarchies of the classical memorial. showing interiority rather than masculine power expeks ter national display he has, quote, region deered the vocabulary of memorialization. the rye viewer said criticism of the work likely stems from, quote, the basic feminization of the memorial language. the park contains a statue of eisenhower and later versions of himself. it is a reference to the dreaminess of youth and the traditionally feminine passivity of reading. meanwhile, the memorial plans to show a bio pick of the former supreme commander which i believe we have a preview. >> you didn't have a lot of hair back then either, remy. if eisenhower was your great grand dad what would you do? >> i didn't understand anything that that critics from the washington

jon: there is a growing dispute over a planned memorial for president dwight d. eisenhower.mily is now in an intense battle with famed architect frank fearg over -- geary over the controversial design. chief correspondent james rosen has the live update. >> reporter: good afternoon. this controversy is a result when a distinctly modern or art critics would call it post structuralist. the actrebgt frank geary is honoring a simple, staid model of probe price and achievement of war and peace, namely dwight d. eisenhower. for the last four years, geary and his team have clashed over how best to honor eisenhower's legacy, liberator of concentration camps and the 34th war, the speak gages -- integration of public schools in little rock and multiple crisiseans the soviets. the geary plan calls for a 4-acre space off the national mall to be punctuated by giant, soaring columns, enormous metal screens or tapestries, a sculpture depicting ike as a barefoot boy from kansas looking up at monumental stone carvings that are themselves modeled on famous images of eisenhower during d day an

nobody -- dwight eisenhower, i don't know what his private religious belief were.eisenhower and abraham lincoln did not go around talking about how their private religious beliefs or nonbeliefs applied to the issues of the day. and one of the, it's very important for people to realize that this constant bringing of religion into political campaigns is really a product of the last 30 years. the first time it was ever raised and properly so, was when kennedy ran in 1960. all he said then was church and stayed, separate. rick santorum -- >> rick santorum throw up. jamala and steven, i want to get your thoughts on this. for me, it's really about building this extraordinary community. american express is passionate about the same thing. they're one of those partners that i would really rely on whether it's finding new customers, or, a new location for my next restaurant. when we all come together, my restaurants, my partners, and the community amazing things happen. to me, that's the membership effect. here's a chance to create jobs in america. oil sands projects, like

. >>> the granddaughter of president dwight eisenhower is due to tell congress that a memorial to thensive. it was supposed to be built on the national mall. the iceen hour family says the main theme of the memorial depicting eisenhower as barefoot boy from kansas is offensive to his legacy as a two-term president and commander during world war ii. >>> we are monitoring metro this morning with more on a new look for its new map. fee you ares updated stations and name like nona gallaudet u. that is the current new york avenue station. it will change to noma sometime next year to reflect the area know of of mass avenue. and they will add ballpark to the navy yard stop. the map also indicates something called rush plus which starts in june. that will add a number of trains during rush hours during the orange line and allow some blue line service to be picked up by orange and yellow line trains. we may change the graphics on our show to the kenny and taco show, right? >> that was cute. >>> coming up next, we'll go live to fox business network in new york. high gas prices mean a hike in so

eisenhower memorial and the great president that we are honoring. in a nutshell, one of the great transitional leaders in american history was dwight david eisenhower. last president born in the 19th century, among other things the first president to look at reconnaissance photographs taken from satellites in space that he put there. a transitional leader with many other levels, and tonight we have the privilege of hearing from another great transitional leader in architecture, frank gehry arguably has brought the architectural level to a whole new level of understanding itself. this great architect along with his collaborator we have the opportunity to share with us the creative process which will enable and result in this great memorial is a special privilege to all of us. so, i'd like to turn the microphone back to the archivist of the united states, and thank you, david, for making this possible. >> so, i'd now like to introduce the two men who have collaborated on the original concept and design of the eisenhower national memory. architect frank gehry has received the highest of honors of his profession including the pritzer architecture prize