Memorials in Washington have historically been controversial. The design was severely criticized by the president's son John Eisenhower and granddaughter Susan Eisenhower, who said her entire family opposed it. Robert Campbell, the "Boston Globe's" architecture critic, said about the design, "It’s way too big. It’s too cartoony. Someone should scrub the design and start over." Roger L. Lewis, an architect and a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, criticized and opposed the design in the "Washington Post": "Building a quasi-fenced precinct makes no sense. The narrative theme relating to Eisenhower’s boyhood, so visually dominant in the present design, also makes no sense. Gehry instead could craft a less grandiose yet visually powerful memorial composition..." Columnist Richard Cohen wrote that the Memorial did not accurately capture Eisenhower's life. George F. Will also opposed the design in the "Washington Post". The design has been criticized in "The New Republic", "National Review", "Foreign Policy", "Metropolis Magazine", "The American Spectator", and "The Washington Examiner".