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- <text id=90TT1795>
- <title>
- July 09, 1990: American Notes:Memorials
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 09, 1990 Abortion's Most Wrenching Questions
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 31
- American Notes
- MEMORIALS
- A Monument to F.D.R.
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- <body>
- <p> Franklin D. Roosevelt once said he did not want any memorial
- to him to be any larger than his Oval Office desk. In fact, an
- inconspicuous block of marble about that size was erected in
- front of the National Archives Building in Washington 20 years
- after he died, in 1945. But as his place in history has grown,
- so too has the demand for something grander. Next year ground
- will at last be broken on a "gardenesque" layout of granite
- walls and waterfalls near the Potomac River.
- </p>
- <p> The procrastination has had less to do with political
- attitudes toward F.D.R. than with bickering over the size of
- the monument. The design by San Francisco landscape architect
- Lawrence Halprin was finally approved by the Commission of Fine
- Arts, which had accepted a larger version of the concept in
- 1978. It took a plea last fall by Florida Congressman Claude
- Pepper, who had been a Senator when F.D.R. was President, to
- get a $5.8 million appropriation passed to begin the $47
- million project. Terminally ill with cancer, Pepper got out of
- bed to make his pitch in his last public appearance before he
- died at 88.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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