Eisenhower Gets a Place in Statue Collection
From Times Wire Services
It took four years to bring a statue of President Eisenhower to the Capitol.
Dwight D. Eisenhower assumed a place in the Capitol during a dedication ceremony as congressional leaders accepted the sculpture into the National Statuary Hall Collection. “He would be in awe,” said granddaughter Mary Eisenhower.
Kansas exchanged the statue for a marble sculpture of a now-obscure former governor, George Washington Glick.
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