Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial
McClatchy reports that Dwight D. Eisenhower, our 34th President and the commander of the invasion of Hitler’s Europe will finally get a Memorial in Washington, DC a block or so from the National Mall. The memorial will focus on his leadership on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
“From Eisenhower’s upbringing in Abilene, Kansas, to the pinnacle of power in the 1940s and 50s,” [Susan Eisenhower, the president’s granddaughter] said, “Eisenhower’s origins and his leadership in war and in peace is an appropriate way to remember him.”
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In addition to Baker, who was secretary of state under President George H.W. Bush, the memorial got a boost from Kansas’ senior statesman, Bob Dole, a former senator and Republican presidential nominee.
Dole, 93, had pushed for the memorial’s completion as a tribute to the living World War II veterans Eisenhower led. According to the National World War II Museum, fewer than 700,000 of the 16 million Americans who served in the war are still living, including Dole.
It’s hoped that the project will be finished in time for the 75th anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 2019.
Category: We Remember
The Barry Hussein Obumba living memorial will get priority and bump Ike’s.
I think the location for that one is a landfill in Iraq.
Graybeard, Thanks. Laughed out loud here in the office. Loud enough for my co-workers to notice.
Hell, B. Hussein 0bama is likely to have it MADE IN CHINA just like he did the MLK Memorial.
I Like Ike.
I still remember that slogan from my childhood. The more I read about him as a soldier, the more I like him. I know he may not be considered one of our best presidents, (yet the interstate is part of his legacy) but as far as I can tell he was an honorable man.
Eisenhower is ranked very high in the composite scholar surveys dating from 1948 to 2015. Ike gets an aggregate score pegging him 9th out of 43 presidents (Obama not included) YMMV.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States
Dole also spearheaded the WWII Memorial. My brother met him there – we had just buried my father, a WWII vet, that day at Arlington and afterward the family went to the as-yet unopened Memorial – it opened Memorial Day and we were there the Friday before. Good man – should have been President.
“Good man – should have been President.”
IMHO we can thank “Ears” Perot for the eight year long Clinton Curse.
All because Perot was being petty.
I’d still like to backhand that man.
Stupid, selfish, vindictive jerk that he was.
Dang. Type my email address wrong and I get moderated.
What I tried to say is:
All because Perot was being petty.
He was a stupid, selfish, vindictive jerk, and I’d still like to backhand him.
You and me both, FUCK “Pancake Ears” Perot.
different elections, Perot was ’92 and Dole was ’96. However, Perot definitely helped the Republicans lose in ’92, which set Clinton up as the incumbent in ’96. Arguably the ’96 election was one of the worst managed in modern times – Clinton was not very popular about then but the Republicans totally fumbled what should have been a slam-dunk – they led on no issues, reacted instead of acted, let the Democrats determine media discussion – wow, somehow this sounds familiar….
Perot also ran as the Reform Party candidate in 1996. Took 8.4% of the popular vote nationwide, and prevented Clintoon from having an absolute popular-vote majority.
However, unlike 1992, Perot’s candidacy in 1996 probably wasn’t the deciding factor in the race. IMO it probably was in 1992.
Perot SUCKED away enough votes to defeat Bob Dole in 1996 as well, and it didn’t help that Dole’s campaign was about as energetic and exciting as wet toilet paper.
to respectfully disagree, Dole and Perot’s percentages, and popular votes, added together still trailed Clinton. I think we agree on the content and tone of the election, as did over half of the American voters who stayed home.
Let that be a lesson to all those who decide to sit out Trump versus Clinton
Rush: “..if you chose not to decide, you still have made a choice…”
Clinton has zero chance to convince Republicans to vote for her. So, the game plan is to convince republicans “it doesnt matter” and to either vote third party or abstain altogether.
Taking votes away from your opponent helps your own total, even if they do not move into your count.
Thus the “Never Trump” types are actively aiding and abetting a Clinton win, by removing republican points form the board.
Note how the strongest democrat/otherleft party supporters are often the loudest advocates of “There is no difference between Clinton and Trump!” (Just not around democrat voters, of course….)
Here’s something. Did you know that after his two terms as president and JFK’s win in 1960, JFK reactivated Eisenhower?
“Upon entering the office of the Presidency, Dwight Eisenhower had resigned his permanent commission as General of the Army. President Kennedy reactivated his commission as a five star general in the United States Army. With the exception of George Washington, Eisenhower is the only United States President with military service to reenter the Armed Forces after leaving the office of President.”
https://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/all_about_ike/post_presidential.html
(Confirmed through additional sources)
President Eisenhower was from my mothers home town of Abilene, Kansas. If you all ever get the chance to go see his museum, boyhood home, and the chapel in which he and Mamie are buried, please do so. The museum is outstanding and the grounds are beautiful and peaceful.
I grew up in that part of the Country and I’ve visited there a few times, she’s right! Do they still do the Old West shootouts there in Old Abilene Town? I’d like to visit there again and ride the A & SV as well, preferably when they have that AT & SF steam loco they restored pulling it.
They do. I get really bored at Ft Riley so I’ve gone to Abilene about 5x in the past two months just to see the museum.
Hey 19D2OR4-Smitty, check out Topeka, Lawrence, and Salina as well….
I hadn’t watched this in a few years. This seems like a good thread to drop it.
One of the absolute best patriotic songs. Still true and still resonates. Johnny said he wrote it in about 45 minutes.
he gets shortchanged as a songwriter, which is a pity – he wrote most of his mid-70s stuff and it has some of his absolute best songs.
It’s unclear in the story what the squabble over the Frank Gehry design for the memorial is about, other than an artsy-fartsy food fight. It’s apparently derivative of a photo HERE of Eisenhower talking to a group of 101st Airborne troopers in warpaint getting ready to board a flying armada of C-47s, and go ruin the Wehrmacht’s day.
Personally, I’ve always thought the photo speaks volumes about Eisenhower as a commander because it’s not a posed piece. If you’re going to send people off to bleed, you need to have the stones to look them in the eye when you do it.
On a separate level, one of more rarefied air, Eisenhower also had a remarkable ability to keep the allied command structure simply moving forward. Something probably similar to herding cats. Keeping George Patton from wringing Bernard Montgomery’s neck, for example, was likely not an easy thing.
It’s interesting how during more than 200 years, the U.S. as a nation has somehow managed to find those who can rise to the occasion during times of dark need. And do it without a lot of bluster and bullshit. Eisenhower was one of them.
Sorry, broken link on the photo. This should work:
http://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a20000/3a26000/3a26500/3a26521v.jpg
On March 5, 1941, Ike was still a lieutenant colonel. By December 20, 1944, 3.5 years later, he was a five-star. That’s a promotion trajectory unlikely ever to be seen again and can explain some of the animosity of other generals like MacArthur, who had been a major general sixteen years when Ike was still O-5.
About a gazillion years ago, probably when I was still in the Army, I was driving across the United States, and en route to wherever I was going, I responded to an advertisement on the highway, and stopped to visit the boyhood home and museum of Dwight David Eisenhower.
Naturally, I was impressed, and highly recommend the tour to everybody.