you just heard from, member of the house, of course, commissioners alfred seated behind me and susan banz harris appointed by the president. senator pat robert, senator jack reed, senator jerry moran, representative thornburgh, representative mike simpson and representative sanford bishop, our chairman is rocco. ien the purpose of this hearing is to discuss the eisenhower memori memorial. while some may be here to express a design point of view, which may be legitimately different from the commission's viewpoint, i'm here to answer your questions about the memorization process to the best of my ability and demonstrate what proposed memorial is and is not. in my extended statement for the record, you'll see how we've worked with congress and numerous government agencies such as the national park service gsa, ncpc, commission of fine arts, district of columbia and many others. since passage of legislation establishing the commission, the memorial designer has been bound by law to memorialize both 34th president of the united states and supreme commander of allied forces in world war ii. i would li