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Memorial to be site of ceremony

One of the more pleasant tasks awaiting Barack Obama, as the 44th president of the United States, will be speaking at the rededication of the Abraham Lincoln Monument on May 30 in Washington, D.C.

The ceremony will take place fourscore and seven years after the sculpture of the 16th president by Daniel Chester French and surrounding installation were dedicated by former president William Howard Taft on May 30, 1922.

That event was attended by the only surviving son of Abraham Lincoln, Robert Todd Lincoln, then age 78 and a former secretary of war and ambassador to Great Britain.

ISBA members who will attend the U.S. Supreme Court admission ceremony on Monday, June 1, may be able to attend the Lincoln Monument rededication.

Other Lincoln Bicentennial commemorations next year in the nation’s capital include a joint session of both chambers of Congress on Feb. 12, and the reopening of restored Ford’s Theatre, where the president was shot on April 14, 1865.