Us. I would like to acknowledge some very important people who are with us this evening. Matts parents, tim and debbie costello, and his wife, kristen. And the two most important, his two little wonderful kids, i guess they are at home, sophia and theodore. Welcomealso like to some members of the board of directors who are with us tonight. Nan stock. [applause] and bob mcgee. [applause] and we have two that are coming, Anita Mcbride and gail west. Both will be with us tonight. Steve strong is the national cochair of our white house, National Council on white house history. He and his wife andrea are here with us tonight. This is one of our most important groups here at the White House Historical association. Their support, their encouragement, their inspiration and their wisdom really puts the wind in the sails of so much of what we do. We are grateful to have you with us here tonight, steve. The program tonight, dr. Matt costello, is going to share with us about his brandnew book hot
Pleasure to introduce a panel of three of americas most distinguished historians of the Early Supreme Court to teach us about significant justices that we may not have learned about before. Gerard mallioka is the Samuel R Rosen professor of law at the Indiana University Robert H Mckinney school of law. Hes the author of many books which weve had the pleasure of discussing at the ncc and the most recent which were here to talk about is washingtons air the life of justice, bushrod, washington. Maybe marcus is Research Professor of law and directer of the institute for constitutional studies at the George Washington University Law school where weve been colleagues for many years as editor of the documentary history of the Supreme Court of the United States 1789 to 1800 professor marcus published eight volumes with many articles on legal history. She was appointed by the librarian of congress as the general editor of the Oliver Wendell holmes devised the history of the Supreme Court of the
Were going to have a nice time talking about George Washingtons 10 tonight. We have an engineer, a Structural Engineer here and a textile conservator who are part of a larger team. As a very smart woman once said, it takes a village and was a large village involved in the project you are going to hear about tonight. Freeu have questions, feel to grab any of us. This evening, we are going to divide comments into three sections. Im going to talk about the history of the object itself and when we contemplated beginning putting it on display and alice will talk about the engineering challenges of trying to take what is the most historic and object sinceextile the starspangled banner that has been placed on display in a new museum. So to face the unique challenges of this unique textile object, we will talk about the challenges of conserving that object and preparing it for display and how we knitted together the history of the engineering and conservation science to engineer the preservati
Anniversary of the appointment of John Marshall to the Supreme Court. The capstone of that particular evening was a rousing lecture by Justice Scalia about the importance of John Marshall to the history of the court and the history of the country. Justice scalia was a grand friend of both the Marshall Foundation and the Supreme Court Historical Society. I hope you will join me in just a moment of silence to remember Justice Scalia. Thank you. We are grateful this evening that the court, chief Justice Roberts and his colleagues, allow the Supreme Court Historical Society to continue using this courtroom for its programs. It is a gift to us, and we are grateful. At this juncture, normally, i would have a few remarks to introduce our distinguished host for the evening. But it seems that chief Justice Roberts is on a tight schedule this evening, we are lucky to get him here. He has asked that his introduction be as brief as possible. Since we are so grateful to chief Justice Roberts for hi
I hope you will join me in just a moment of silence to remember Justice Scalia. Thank you. We are grateful this evening that the court, chief Justice Roberts and his colleagues, allow the Supreme Court Historical Society to continue using this courtroom for its programs. It is a gift to us, and we are grateful. At this juncture, normally, i would have a few remarks introduce our distinguished host for the evening. But it seems that chief Justice Roberts is on a tight schedule this evening, we are lucky to get him here. He has asked that his introduction be as brief as possible. Since we are so grateful to chief Justice Roberts for his continuing support of the society, and since he is, after all, the chief justice, let me just say right now, it is my privilege and my owner to introduce our host for the evening, chief justice john roberts. [applause] Justice Roberts thank you. That is actually my preferred introduction even when i have lots of time. The memorialnote drapery we have on t