Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Philanthropist David Rubenstein, who has already donated tens of millions of dollars to refurbish the Washington Monument and other icons, is giving $18 million to fix up the Lincoln Memorial. 
  
 The National Park Service announced the gift Monday. The money will be used to fix the memorial's roof, clean the marble and improve accessibility by adding a second elevator. The park service also plans to create 15,000 square feet of visitor space tucked beneath the memorial for exhibits. 
  
 Rubenstein said his admiration for Lincoln drew him to this project. 
  
 "Lincoln deserves to have his memorial in tip-top shape," he said in a phone interview. 
  
 The Lincoln Memorial draws more 7 million visitors annually and is the most visited attraction on the National Mall. 
  
 Park Service Director John Jarvis said the memorial, dedicated in 1922, is structurally sound but does need some repair work. 
  
 "It's pretty stout, and I think really has held up quite well for a structure of its age," Jarvis said. "But you can't build a 100-year roof." 
  
 The memorial is built on pilings, and the park service is going to explore ways for visitors to see the foundations that anchor the memorial to the bedrock. The unseen superstructure is marked with graffiti from the workers who built the memorial over a seven-year period, including caricatures of former President William Howard Taft and memorial architect Henry Bacon. 
  
 Rubenstein, a billionaire who founded The Carlyle Group investment firm in Washington, has already given $7.5 million to repair the Washington Monument after a 2011 earthquake, $5.4 million for the Iwo Jima Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, and $12.35 million for Arlington House, the home of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the grounds of Arlington National Cemetery. 
  
 He said he hopes his donations have spurred others to think about giving. 
  
 Will Shafroth, president of the National Park Foundation, believes it has. He notes that donations to the foundation have grown from about $25 million three years ago to an expected $100 million in this fiscal year. On Monday, the foundation announced that a $350 million, five-year capital fundraising campaign begun in October 2013 is about half way to reaching its goal. 
  
 "Due to things like Mr. Rubenstein's generous gifts, we've tapped into a real vein of interest ... in highlighting the importance of these national treasures," Shafroth said. 
  
 Rubenstein, a history buff, said he is particularly excited that his gift will provide the park service a better opportunity to tell Lincoln's story to visitors at the memorial, and generally increase awareness about his presidency. 
  
 "It will be good if people read more about Lincoln and what he did to keep the country together," he said. ||||| The Lincoln Memorial, seen Feb. 12, will be repaired and refurbished with the help of a gift from David Rubenstein, who is giving $18.5 million to the National Park Service for the work. (Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post) 
  
 The National Park Service announced Monday that the Lincoln Memorial will undergo a major renovation over the next four years, thanks largely to an $18.5 million donation by billionaire philanthropist David Rubenstein. 
  
 The project is probably the biggest overhaul of the building since the structure was dedicated in 1922, officials said. 
  
 The memorial, which attracts 7 million visitors a year, will remain open during the work, although parts of it may be closed off from time to time. 
  
 The marble-columned edifice, which houses the 120-ton statue of a seated and contemplative Abraham Lincoln, is one of the most elegant and hallowed memorials in the ­country. 
  
 [Lincoln’s assassination was, in a way, a play in three acts] 
  
 Much of the work on it will take place inside, beneath the massive chamber that holds the statue. 
  
 The limited exhibit space will be greatly expanded, along with the memorial’s tiny bookstore and antiquated restrooms. New exhibits will be added, and visitors will be able to see the massive pilings and foundation that support the memorial. 
  
 Visitors will also be able to see some of the old graffiti apparently left by construction workers who drew caricatures in charcoal on some of the pilings. 
  
 The exhibit area, now about 750 square feet, will be expanded to 15,000 square feet, said Sean Kennealy, chief of professional services for the National Mall and Memorial Parks. 
  
 The memorial will be scrubbed inside and out. Its crumbling slate roof, which is not the original but has leaked water and stained interior walls, will be repaired. 
  
 And its two dramatic 60-foot-long murals inside will be restored. 
  
 Damage to some inside brickwork that occurred during the 2011 earthquake also will be repaired. 
  
 The formal announcement was made as dignitaries gathered in the snow under umbrellas on the steps of the memorial. 
  
 “I assure you I have malice towards nobody for the weather,” Rubenstein joked, using words from Lincoln’s famous second inaugural address. “But charity towards all of you for coming.” 
  
 “I’m very honored as an American to be able to contribute in this way,” he said of his gift. 
  
 “This is an extraordinary country that enables people from all races, all backgrounds, all ethnicities to be able to rise up and do things that they maybe couldn’t have done in any other country,” he said. 
  
 In an interview last week, he said, “The idea was to take the basic Lincoln Memorial and reshape it a bit, make it more modern, scrub it up a bit.” 
  
 “When you go to the Lincoln Memorial today, you see this great statue of Lincoln,” he said. “But there’s no real museum or education center about Lincoln. So I think it would be a good idea to have such a thing.” 
  
 His gift is the latest in a series of multimillion-dollar donations he has made to historically themed projects around the Washington area. 
  
 [Rubenstein’s gifts to history and heritage] 
  
 Last April, he announced a $5.37 million donation to refurbish the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial near Arlington National Cemetery. 
  
 In 2014, he gave $10 million to Montpelier, the historic Orange, Va., home of James Madison; $5 million to the White House Visitor Center; and $12.3 million to Arlington House, the home of Robert E. Lee. 
  
 And after the earthquake, he paid $7.5 million of the $15 million cost to repair the Washington Monument. 
  
 Rubenstein is a co-founder of the Carlyle Group, a Washington-based global private equity firm. 
  
 Gay Vietzke, superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, said the goal is to broaden the story of Lincoln. 
  
 “This place has become symbolic of so much more,” she said last week. “And in this tiny footprint, it’s near impossible to talk about . . . the power of the place and Lincoln’s legacy and why it’s really relevant to us today.” 
  
 “Our hope is we’re going to do that with this very, very special gift,” she said. 
  
 The money will go to the National Park Service through the National Park Foundation, the Park Service’s nonprofit fundraiser, officials said. The Park Service will kick in about $6 million to the project. 
  
 “This is a very long overdue rehabilitation,” said Will Shafroth, president of the National Park Foundation. “It’s old and tired. 
  
 “In some ways, we’ve let this place get . . . run-down,” he said. “The improvements that are going to be made are going to make it a much more welcome place to be.” 
  
 The Park Service is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year and is in the midst of an effort to raise $350 million in donations, Director Jonathan B. Jarvis said. It has a nearly $12 billion backlog in deferred maintenance, he said. 
  
 The Park Service was established under President Woodrow Wilson on Aug. 25, 1916. 
  
 The 38,000-ton Lincoln Memorial is built on fill dredged from the Potomac River. It is supported by a series of huge concrete pilings that were sunk 44 to 65 feet through the fill down to bedrock. 
  
 “It’s very cool,” Jarvis said last week. “When we build the new exhibit and visitor-use space, it will . . . give the public an opportunity to actually see underneath the memorial.” 
  
 After the announcement Monday, Park Service officials conducted a tour of the cavernous basement, or “undercroft,” of the memorial. 
  
 Resembling a dim, subterranean cathedral, the area is filled with the gigantic concrete pilings and arched supports that hold up the structure. 
  
 Ground was broken for the memorial on Lincoln’s birthday — Feb. 12 — in 1914. The cornerstone was set a year later. The memorial was dedicated in the presence of Lincoln’s 78-year-old son, Robert, on May 30, 1922. 
  
 Jarvis said some of the work will begin this year. 
  
 “I feel great about it,” he said. 
  
 “It’s our centennial year,” he said. “We’re announcing the restoration of one of our most iconic sites . . . [and] the public phase of the [fundraising] campaign. . . . I’m feeling like it’s a pretty good year.” ||||| Story highlights The work will repair damage and expand exhibit, education and research space 
  
 It will also add an elevator to help improve access at the Lincoln Memorial 
  
 (CNN) David Rubenstein helped repair earthquake damage to the monument honoring the nation's first president. Now he's spending even more to help restore the memorial to the president who helped keep the country whole. 
  
 The National Park Service says the financier and philanthropist is donating $18.5 million to help restore the Lincoln Memorial. 
  
 The money will go to repairing damaged masonry, cleaning the memorial and conserving murals inside. Also on tap: a huge expansion of exhibit, education and research space and a new elevator to improve access, according to the agency. 
  
 The money will also pay for a special project to show visitors some of the graffiti left on the underpinnings of the monument. 
  
 "These improvements will hopefully enable more people to better understand and appreciate Abraham Lincoln's remarkable leadership during one of the most trying periods in American history," Rubenstein said in a statement released by the park service. "I am humbled to be a part of honoring this great man and preserving this iconic memorial for future generations." 
  
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Student:
The Lincoln Memorial will be getting a much-needed facelift in the coming years thanks to an $18.5 million donation from one history-loving philanthropist, CNN reports. "Lincoln deserves to have his memorial in tip-top shape," David Rubenstein tells the AP. The president of the National Park Foundation admits to the Washington Post the nearly 100-year-old memorial has gotten a bit "run-down" since it first opened. The Park Service plans to use the Rubenstein's donation to clean the memorial, fix its roof, update its restrooms, make its exhibit area 20 times larger, restore its murals, and install an elevator to improve access. The restoration project will also allow visitors to see below the monument, where the original builders left charcoal graffiti, including a caricature of President Taft. “I’m very honored as an American to be able to contribute in this way,” the Post quotes Rubenstein during the announcement of his donation Monday. The project is likely to be the biggest renovation to the Lincoln Memorial, which receives 7 million visitors per year, since it opened. In the past, Rubenstein has donated more than $40 million to repair the Washington Monument, US Marine Corps War Memorial, the White House Visitor Center, James Madison's home, and the Arlington House. He even gave $9 million to help the National Zoo keep its pandas. The Park Service currently has $12 billion in repairs it's been putting off. The National Park Foundation expects to raise about $100 million in donations this year.