Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial

This guide to the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, D.C. opens with the line from his 1953 inaugural address carved into the limestone panel above you, and the improvised prayer he wrote alone that same morning before startling the crowd at the Capitol. Roughly one hundred twenty-five thousand people stood watching as he asked them to bow their heads. It traces his unusual religious history: raised among the River Brethren, a small sect that rejected infant baptism, he had spent decades as a soldier and general with no religious home at all.