U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that a controversial paraphrased quote on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will simply be removed instead of altered to more closely reflect what King said.

The Frank Gehry-designed Eisenhower Memorial remains in limbo, as a federal agency put off discussing it for another month.

It’s been a year since the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial opened to the public, but a controversial quote that officials have pledged to change remains.

U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has asked the Eisenhower Memorial Commission to see models of the Frank Gehry-designed memorial to President Dwight Eisenhower later this month, likely delaying any formal approval from the Commission of Fine Arts and National Capital Planning Commission.

Plenty of people may have been happy when Interior Secretary Ken Salazar agreed to change a controversial quote on the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, but the man in charge of the foundation that raised the money to build it certainly isn’t one.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced today that the process to change a paraphrased quote on the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial to reflect a complete statement by the civil rights leader will take about a year.

The Big Room at Carlsbad Caverns National Park, photograph by Ansel Adams courtesy the Department of the Interior. Cool news for Ansel Adams fans here in D.C.: the U.S. Department of the Interior has installed 26 never-before displayed photographic murals taken by the famed American photographer. The images are now on display on the first and second floors of the department’s headquarters, located at 1849 C Street NW. The murals were originally commissioned back…