TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A statue of President Dwight D. Eisenhower has been unveiled on the Statehouse grounds.
Gov. Jeff Colyer praised Eisenhower at the dedication Monday as a man who changed the face of America forever. He noted Eisenhower’s role as Supreme Allied Commander during World War II and then later his presidential accomplishments, which included creating the interstate system.
The privately funded 7-foot tall bronze statue depicts Eisenhower speaking to a group of U.S. soldiers preparing to parachute into Normandy in June 1944.
Eisenhower was born in Texas but was raised in Abilene, Kansas. He also is honored at the Statehouse with a folk-art statue in the second-floor rotunda and a smaller one in the basement visitor’s center. His portrait hangs outside the governor’s second-floor office.
