Design for Eisenhower Memorial Unveiled

WASHINGTON - A series of 80-foot-tall columns and a "tapestries" of metal would be the centerpieces of a national memorial in Washington to former president and World War II general Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The design for the memorial by celebrity architect Frank Gehry was unveiled Thursday in Washington. A commission overseeing the memorial still has to raise millions to pay for it, and the design must be approved by a series of government agencies. But the commission expects the memorial to be finished in 2015.

The monument is expected to cost $100 million.

Eisenhower, a Republican and the 34th president, served two terms from 1953 to 1961.

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