Architect and cultural icon Frank Gehry was on Capitol Hill Tuesday night for a meeting of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission, which selected him to design the memorial.
Staff handed out buttons that read “I Still Like Ike” to the crowd that included Ike’s grandchildren, David and Susan Eisenhower, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Rep. Jerry Moran, R-Kan.
When he took the microphone, Gehry even got off a one-liner about the buildings on the National Mall, where the commission hopes to site its project. “The buildings around it are, in my humble opinion … OK,” he said.
Also spotted: House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., celebrating his 69th birthday Tuesday night with a party/fundraiser thrown by his brother, John, on the rooftop of the Jones Day law firm’s building on Capitol Hill.
