Susan Eisenhower to testify on Ike memorial Tuesday

President Dwight Eisenhower’s granddaughter Susan is among those scheduled to testify Tuesday before a Congressional subcommittee on the family’s issues with the proposed memorial to her grandfather.

The controversy surrounding the Eisenhower Memorial planned to be next to the National Mall at Independence and Maryland avenues has pitted the Eisenhower family and their supporters against famed architect Frank Gehry, whose work includes the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. The family has said it finds the main theme of the memorial, his depiction as a barefoot boy from Kansas, offensive to his legacy as a two-term president and a supreme Allied commander during World War II.