During their tenure in London, Ambassador and Mrs. Price were surprised to learn that there were was no statue of Dwight Eisenhower, who, as much as anyone, personifies the special Anglo-American relationship. In sharing this concern with friends from Kansas City, they found much enthusiasm for constructing such a monument to honor Eisenhower, who grew up in Kansas City region. Those friends also considered it appropriate that this project commemorate the distinguished diplomatic service in Britain of their fellow Kansas Citians, Charles and Carol Price. It was therefore decided to commission Robert Dean, an accomplished American sculptor who had done three previous statues of Eisenhower, to render the general in his “Ike” jacket, and to place this statue facing Grosvenor Square, in front of the American Embassy and across the street from Eisenhower’s World War II headquarters. It joins monuments to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the pilots of the American Eagle Squadrons already in the Square, an area known as “little America” during the war. The statue , sculpted and cast in Florence, Italy by the “Marinelli” foundry, is almost ten feet tall and made of bronze. Robert Dean is of the most famous American sculptors who like to work at the “Marinelli” foundry in Florence.