Memorials and Monuments

Who dedicated the Women in Military Service for American Monument

Bill Clinton

Who dedicated the Korean War Memorial

Bill Clinton (Reagan signed it into law) and South Korean President Kim Young Sam

Who dedicated the Lincoln Memorial

Warren Harding

Who dedicated the WWII Memorial

George W. Bush

Who dedicated the Jefferson Monument

FDR

Who designed the Lincoln Memorial

Daniel Chester French and Henry Bacon

Who designed the Jefferson Memorial

John Russell Pope

Who designed the WWII memorial

Friedrich St. Florian

Who designed the Korean War Memorial

Cooper-Lecky Architects, Statues by Frank Gaylord, Wall by Louis Nelson

Who designed the Women in Military Service for American Monument

Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi

Who dedicated the MLK memorial

Barack Obama

Who designed the MLK memorial

ROMA design group/McKissack & McKissack

Who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Maya Lin

Who dedicated the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Accepted by Ronald Reagan, no real dedication

Who had the idea for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Jan Scruggs, Vietnam Veteran

Who dedicated the Washington Monument

Thomas Lincoln Casey of the Army Corps of Engineers, and President Chester A. Arthur

Who designed the Washington Monument

Robert Mills, Later Thomas Casey

Who designed the WWI Memorial

Joseph Weishaar

Who decided to have the Washington Monument

The confederation/continental congress

Who decided to have the MLK memorial

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha

Rainbow Pool

WWII Memorial

Reflecting Pool

Between Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial

Pool of Remembrance

Korean War Veterans Memorial