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the House Oversight Committee is asking for further delay in approving the planned Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial near the National Mall in Washington. California Rep. Darrell Issa sent a letter Thursday to the Eisenhower Memorial Commission saying more questions
that Gehry announced May 15. The family continues to oppose the use of large metal scrims to frame a memorial park near the National Mall . Gehry has called them tapestries that would depict the landscape of Eisenhower's boyhood home in Kansas. The scope and
wasn't the only part of the country dealing with troublesome weather. In Washington, the annual Memorial Day concert on the National Mall Sunday night was cut short as a line of thunderstorms approached the District of Columbia from the northwest. Mike Musher
Sunday for raising awareness of missing-in-action troops and prisoners of war. At the annual Rolling Thunder rally on the National Mall , Bob Bergdahl promised his son: "You will come home. We will not leave you behind." Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, 26
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wasn't the only part of the country dealing with troublesome weather. In Washington, the annual Memorial Day concert on the National Mall Sunday night was cut short as a line of thunderstorms approached the District of Columbia from the northwest. Mike Musher
wasn't the only part of the country dealing with troublesome weather. In Washington, the annual Memorial Day concert on the National Mall Sunday night was cut short as a line of thunderstorms approached the District of Columbia from the northwest. Mike Musher
feet tall, showing Ike as a World War II hero and as president. The estimated $100 million memorial would be built on the National Mall . The statues would depict Gen. Eisenhower with the 101st Airborne Divison of soldiers before the D-Day invasion of Normandy
donating a record $35 million to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History to build a new dinosaur hall on the National Mall . The Smithsonian is announcing the gift Thursday from David H. Koch, the executive vice president of Koch Industries Inc
All-Star, had not even picked up a bat in town before being noticed on Monday by a group playing slow-pitch softball on the National Mall . "I was just walking around a little bit, checking out all the stuff," Harper, 19, told reporters before his home
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July 4: Students from Cameron, North Carolina, practice their routine near the U.S. Capitol on National Mall in Washington before the start the Fourth of July, Independence Day, festivities. (AP) Fourth of July
March 30: A full-size mockup of the Orion crew exploration vehicle is displayed on the National Mall in Washington. Orion Exploration Vehicle Mockup