Center Quote by Leon Krier

Why should the Eisenhower memorial be over twice the size of WWII Memorial? Why should it be so vast as to comfortably house two…

— Leon Krier

They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Wilson: They could build monuments to your self-centeredness.

— House MD

Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most

— Ethel Merman

After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor…

— Russ Carnahan

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest…

— Stephen Ambrose

“We seemed about to enter an Olympian age in this country, brains and intellect harnessed to great force, the better to define a common…

— David Halberstam

[Dwight Eisenhower was ] a citizen of the world.

— Mark Shields

The Eisenhower Building - the furniture is mismatched; everything is just bad decor and bad quality. Everybody's looking down at their Blackberry. It's a…

— Tony Hale

“Eisenhower was the living symbol of what felt in 1969 like an easier age, when greatness was an American birthright, when the torrents of…

— Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the…

— Ray Stannard Baker

Eisenhower's career demonstrated how it is possible to fool all the people all the time...'I may be stupid,' he once said at a press…

— Gore Vidal