It is located on a 7.4-acre site on the east end of the Reflecting Pool on the Mall, between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. The memorial stirred controversy precisely because of its location. A master plan for the Mall devised in the early part of the 20th century known as the McMillan plan had called for nothing to be built to obstruct the sight lines between the two iconic structures.
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