Eisenhower Dedicates Memorial
Eisenhower Dedicates Memorial
Eisenhower Dedicates Memorial Memorial to an Ohio Republican. At the Taft Bell Tower Memorial ceremony attended by ex-president Herbert Hoover and members of the President's cabinet, as well as all the top officers of the Democratic Congress in addition to more than 5,000 spectators. The Taft Carillon memorializes a man of Congress, the man who led the Senate during the turbulent Eightieth Congress as 'Mr. Republican', and who in 1952 lost his final battle for the presidential nomination to General Dwight D. Eisenhower. He died in July 1953 at the age of sixty-three. Bell tower structure, U.S. Capitol dome in background. Statue at bottom of the rectangular structure. Brief shot of Ike (?) at podium, crowd begins to applaud, Richard Nixon gets up from his chair near the podium and takes some item the President hands to him.