Each year the National Mall hosts over 36 million visitors, making it the most visited national park in the country. With this level of use, volunteers play a vital role in helping the National Park Service (NPS) engage with visitors and maintain the grounds. As the official nonprofit partner of NPS, the Trust for the National Mall is committed to building a sense of stewardship for this iconic park.

Washington, November 4, 2019: Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), Chairman of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission, is pleased to welcome Catherine Ann Stevens to the Commission. President Donald Trump announced the appointment on November 1, 2019.

Dole Led Successful Campaign Raising Private Funds Advancing the Memorial’s Completion.

Members of the local chapter of the Student Veterans of America (SVA) were recently updated about a new presidential memorial currently under construction in Washington, D. C. This update came from this area’s leading expert on the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Memorial, Professor Howard Day.

Eisenhower Memorial Finance Co-Chair Bob Dole was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal at a ceremony held in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol on January 17, 2018.

Dwight D. Eisenhower’s place in history was forever assured on June 6, 1944, when Allied soldiers, sailors, and airmen successfully executed his plans for the largest amphibious invasion in history, storming the beaches of Normandy, not as conquerors, but as crusaders of freedom to liberate Western Europe by destroying German military forces, achieved the following year with victory in World War II.

As June 6 — the 73rd anniversary of D-Day — approaches, our nation gratefully remembers Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, our 34th president and the heroic military leader who brought World War II to an end, starting with the D-Day Invasion in Normandy, France on June 6, 1944.

Buried in the omnibus budget bill Congress negotiated late into the night Sunday was a win for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial planned near the National Mall: $45 million in funding, the essential go-ahead to start work at the site.

Construction could begin as early as September on a proposed memorial for President Dwight D. Eisenhower that has been mired in controversy for almost 20 years.

A single act or character trait may be instrumental in deciding an individual’s future path. In Dwight D. Eisenhower’s case, it was because of his perseverance in requesting a recommendation from his U.S. Senator – twice – that he received an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

At age 92, Bob Dole is embarking on what he terms his final mission—an effort to rescue the controversial and long-delayed memorial to his World War II commander, Dwight Eisenhower.

When my dear friend, former Sen. Bob Dole, asked me to become a member of the Advisory Committee of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission, my first thought flashed to the statement that General Eisenhower had prepared for release if the Normandy invasion had failed.

Daschle, Dole and Lott will push to make the Ike memorial plan a reality.

Tom Hanks, Tom Brokaw chipping in to help raise funding for memorial

Former Sen. Bob Dole already has recruited an impressive group of heavy hitters to help him raise money to complete the Eisenhower Memorial.

[VIDEO INTERVIEW] CBS News reached out to the Eisenhower family about the latest developments, and the family had no comment.

Former Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush are joining a fundraising effort to build the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington.

Even at 92 years old, Bob Dole still wants to get things done. And he knows how.

The long-delayed effort to create a national memorial for President Dwight D. Eisenhower is receiving a major boost in Hollywood star power.

The proposed memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower got a boost of star power when the commission in charge of the project announced on Monday that the Hollywood heavyweight Tom Hanks would be joining its ranks.

Oscar Award-winning actor Tom Hanks has joined the effort to complete the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, the memorial commission announced.

RESOLVED, By The American Legion in National Convention assembled in Baltimore, Maryland, September 1, 2, 3, 2015, That The American Legion endorses and supports building the National Eisenhower Memorial...

WASHINGTON — Longtime Kansas Sen. Bob Dole is planning an ambitious fundraising effort to build the long-debated Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, and he will have help from Tom Hanks, Tom Brokaw and others.

Ed Perez has joined the Commission team as Director of Federal Relations.

Taiwan is pledging $1 million to help build a memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington as the project organizers begin a fundraising campaign to complete the monument.

IT HAS been more than 15 years since Congress voted to build a memorial on the Mall honoring Dwight D. Eisenhower. That is a longer time than it took the five-star general to help win World War II and serve two terms as 34th president of the United States. The time is long past for the completion of this project, so we can only hope last week’s final design approval by a key federal agency leads to the start of construction.

After a steady siege of Washington infighting and aesthetic backbiting, the plan to build a national memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president and five-star military leader of World War II, has run into its toughest hurdle yet — growing congressional resistance to financing the project and even calls to “reset” the planning process from scratch.

One of the greatest honors of my life was serving, as a young second lieutenant assigned to the 10th Mountain Division on the Italian front in 1945, under the leadership of a fellow Kansan, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The United States Mint will open sales for the 2015 First Spouse Series One-Half Ounce Gold Coins – Mamie Eisenhower on May 7 at noon Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Wichitans back resolution to complete National Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, DC.

Few people outside the great state of Kansas know that our state motto, “Ad astra per aspera,” is Latin for “to the stars through difficulties.” A fitting phrase. Most Kansans have forebearers who headed west in search of a better life, enduring hardship along the way. We Kansans cherish this heritage, and we are proud that our families saw their way through many difficulties as they made their way “to the stars.” One of Kansas’ greatest sons knew a lot about stars, and how to earn them.

The new movie, Selma, and events in the aftermath of the controversial grand jury decision in Ferguson, Mo., late last year, remind us that the struggle for civil rights in America did not end with the 20th Century. The protests and unrest were a disturbing echo of the divisiveness and disruption caused by the court-ordered desegregation of Little Rock's Central High School in 1957.

Denisonians back resolution to complete Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, DC.

In our respective roles as chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission and co-chairman of the fundraising effort, we spent several years working to ensure that the dream of a National World War II Memorial became a reality. This remarkable edifice on the National Mall honors the service and sacrifice of more than 16 million Americans who served in World War II, many of whom lost their lives defending the freedoms on which America was established.

Dwight David Eisenhower, the 34th president and military legend who organized the Normandy invasion, might have been bemused in his grinning Kansas way at the bureaucratic retreats and aesthetic flak it has taken to win approval of an official Eisenhower memorial on a 4-acre site overlooking the Capitol. A crucial vote of approval Oct. 16 from the United States Commission of Fine Arts signaled a go-ahead for an overdue tribute first approved by Congress 15 years ago...

Filmed interview with Frank Gehry following the opening of his new museum in Paris - Foundation Louis Vuitton.

In 2004, on a glorious spring day and with hundreds of thousands of World War II veterans and their families in attendance, I presented the World War II Memorial to President George W. Bush, who received it on behalf of the American people. As chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission, it was my privilege to oversee the memorial’s creation from design through to construction. You might say I’m a veteran of Washington’s “memorial wars.”

The Commission of Fine Arts on Thursday approved the concept of the revised Frank Gehry design for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial but asked the design team to return with more detail about the plan’s landscaping, statuary, pathways and lighting.

The National Capital Planning Commission gave preliminary design approval, 10-1, to architect Frank Gehry’s latest plan for a memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower Thursday, with a nudge toward more modifications.

The long-delayed effort to build a memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower near the National Mall has won a key approval, despite ongoing objections to architect Frank Gehry's design.

A government planning agency granted preliminary approval Thursday to a smaller version of the controversial Frank Gehry design for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial.

IT IS a perplexing rite of passage that the United States’ most cherished memorials must almost always endure public outcry in their infancy. Following the tradition that includes Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, the estimated $142 million tribute to Dwight D. Eisenhower has been bombarded with rhetorical chaff and calls to begin the 15-year planning process all over again.

Frank Gehry’s embattled design for the proposed Eisenhower Memorial got even more embattled this past week with the release of a a 58-page report drafted by the House Natural Resources Committee. New York Times reporter Robin Pogrebin, among several others, quickly parsed through the report's claims to paint a bleak picture of the design's future.

WHEN IT comes to monuments on the Mall, controversy — writ large in marble and granite — has always been the name of the game.

A powerful commission overseeing civic art and architecture in the nation's capital voted Thursday to approve the general concept and layout of Frank Gehry's design for a national memorial honoring Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The commission charged with overseeing the planning and design of monuments in the District approved the general concept of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial on Thursday, but not before offering some suggestions for designers to consider as they work toward final approval.

It was encouraging to see the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts grant general approval Thursday to Frank Gehry’s design for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial.

WASHINGTON — Officials working to build a memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington are launching a new short film online to mark the 69th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Europe during World War II.

After laying low for months, the Eisenhower Memorial Commission announced Thursday that it is launching the first element of its “E-Memorial,” an educational component that will complement the Frank ­Gehry-designed project. Carl Reddel, executive director of the commission, said the video material will be available online and through handheld devices at the physical memorial when it is built.

WASHINGTON — Three historians are recommending the usage of passages from key speeches by President Dwight D. Eisenhower — including his message to troops during the D-Day invasion — to help represent the 34th president in a planned memorial in the nation’s capital.

U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts is weary of the protracted battle over securing a memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington, D.C.

A proposed memorial to Dwight Eisenhower would bring a bit of Kansas to the nation’s capital while celebrating the Abilene native’s remarkable success as a general and a president, the leader of the effort said Thursday in Lawrence.

The Eisenhower Middle School, located in Oregon, Ohio, recently celebrated its fiftieth anniversary by presenting a generous donation in support of the Eisenhower Memorial, which is to be built in Washington, D.C.

All monument designs have their haters. The controversy over the Eisenhower tribute will blow over, eventually.

At first I think the contretemps in today's New York Times over the $142 million memorial to Dwight Eisenhower is of no concern to me.

Press Release from The American Institute of Architects, March 19, 2013

Designers behind the Eisenhower Memorial are using cutting-edge technology to help tell the story of a man known for keeping an eye on the future.

Annual School Fundraising Effort Collects Donations for National Memorial.

George Washington won America's independence and then established the dignity and restraint of the presidency in a flamboyant, monarchical age. He has the most prominent monument in the capital.

On Tuesday, the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands held a hearing on Frank Gehry’s controversial design for the Dwight D. Eisenhower memorial. National memorials are managed by the National Park Service, which is why the Congressional subcommittee involved itself, even though reviewing architectural design, as Representative Raúl M. Grijalva observed, involves “something well outside our purview.”

SECOND-GUESSING the design of the nation’s memorials is as American as the iconic figures they honor. When the Lincoln Memorial was being planned, no less an authority than Frank Lloyd Wright called it the “most ridiculous, most asinine miscarriages of building material that ever happened.”

In case you missed it, this year’s Kansas State Fair featured a very special surprise guest: President Dwight David Eisenhower. The 34th president and former supreme allied commander welcomed visitors to the Eisenhower Memorial Commission’s award-winning booth at the fair.