“For reasons no one has satisfactorily explained, a few well-placed, influential men – apparently chief among them J. Carter Brown, chairman of the Commission of Fine Arts, and Bob Dole, former senator and Republican presidential nominee, now national campaign chairman of the World War II Memorial – are hellbent not merely on building a memorial but on building one of surpassing ugliness and placing it right in the heart of the National Mall.” – Washington Post 08/28/00