Dr. Billington, Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Hunter Rawlings, president of Cornell University, offered remarks at the March 16 event celebrating James Madison's 250th birthday.
The evening event capped a daylong celebration of the life of James Madison that featured the symposium "James Madison: Philosopher and Practitioner of Liberal Democracy" and the first meeting of the James Madison Commemoration Commission, at the Library. Madison scholar Henry Jaffa (above right) of Claremont McKenna College spoke at the symposium.