More than forty years later, when Burkett had become a prominent California financier and patron of the arts, he told the author that he owed much of his success to the Rushmore Entablature Contest. As a consequence, he said, he held so deep an affection for the monument that he would like to be buried near it. To his great disappointment, Burkett never saw his words carved on Rushmore, for, a few years later, the Entablature was dropped from the monument plans. He was, however, guest of honor at a 1975 ceremony in which the National Park Service installed in the Rushmore visitors’ center a
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