We Like Ike? Not At Denver's Brown Palace Hotel and Spa

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:06:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Eisenhower Presidential Suite Dumped Renamed Barack Obama Suite
Shannon Dexheimer, public relations manager for The Brown Palace Hotel and Spa, recently explained that the reason for renaming the suite, was that the hotel, “wanted to do it to symbolize honoring him as the candidate for the Democrats, and honoring the fact that we played such a huge role 100 years ago when this convention (Democrat) was here last."

The hotel has four named suites, three presidential suites, the Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and Teddy Roosevelt, and a suite named for the Beatles in honor of their one night stay in the hotel in August, 1966. There are also several unnamed suites on the eighth and ninth floors of the hotel.

Why take a chance at angering half the voting public, by making the switch? Only the management at the Brown Palace can answer that, but the smart thing would have been to
temporarily turn one of several other unnamed suites into the Obama Suite.

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Ignoring over 50 years of tradition, the storied Brown Palace, has taken down the photos of President Dwight David Eisenhower in the hotel's renowned, Eisenhower Presidential Suite, and replaced the former president with photos of the presumed Democratic nominee, Barack Obama, and renamed it the Barack Obama Suite.

Photo of Sen. Obama, where President

Eisenhower's photo used to hang.

The Eisenhower Suite is not just a room that the president stayed in for one night. Eisenhower's, wife, Mamie Doud, grew up in Denver and every summer they would come back. According to the hotel's official history book, “The Brown Palace, Denver's Grand Dame,” the president and his wife, “were considered hometown folks.” They would stay six to eight weeks at a time in the suite, which was know to all, as the Western White House.

Below are additional photos of Sen. Obama and his family that now hang in the suite.

Obama campaign poster hangs in the suite

which has clearly undergone, "change."

The Obama family.

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We Like Ike? Not At Denver's Brown Palace Hotel and Spa