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“The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemi…” — Leon Krier
The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemic, the center of which is not President Eisenhower or Washington, D.C. but Mr. Gehry and the values he promulgates.
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