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james carroll

Eisenhower memorial overstates president’s innocence

By James Carroll

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  April 23, 2012

The prominent architect Frank Gehry developed his design for the Washington memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower around the image of the wartime hero and Cold War president as a barefoot farm boy. For all his fame as an innovator, Gehry is exhibiting the very American impulse to elevate the image of innocence over experience, especially tragic experience. The nation habitually thinks of itself as the boy forever, brimming with good intentions.

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