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| Tango01 | 30 Jul 2015 10:43 p.m. PST |
"The quest to fund a new memorial for U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower has received a boost from an unexpected source. Taiwan pledged to donate $1 USD million toward the memorial, which will be located in the new Eisenhower Square park, to the west of Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Organizers aim to raise $20 USD million in private funds, which they hope will help encourage Congress to appropriate funds for the memorial. Though Eisenhower is highly regarded by presidential historians (in a 2014 survey by the Washington Post, he ranked seventh on the list of top-rated presidents), he cuts a far smaller figure in the public imagination. The fact that the Eisenhower Memorial is still struggling to find donations is a case in point. As Ross Douthat put it in a 2012 New York Times op-ed, "It's not that Americans don't like Eisenhower or think fondly of his service to their country… But he is not nearly as beloved as many of his mid-century contemporaries." So why, then, is Taiwan donating $1 USD million to the memorial of a president Americans seem underwhelmed by?…"
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