Mr. Isakson madam president. The presiding officer the senator from georgia. Mr. Isakson madam president , i ask unanimous consent to be able to address the senate. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Isakson thank you, madam president. Its an honor to be here today on whats not my last day but everybody is acting like it. A few months ago i had to an announce that after much consideration to be able to serve the people of georgia, when i knew i couldnt do the job i was going to quit and let somebody do it who wouldnt be hampered. Im not hampered yet. Im pretty tough. But its getting close. In august i decided to tell my wife about it, and we decided to go ahead and retire at the end of december, which ive announced and said i was going to do. The governor of georgia is making an appointment to take my place and you might look in the history books, current history and it might have an isakson in the glossary, but i doubt it. I have been here for 15 years. This is the most enjo
Thank you all for your coming. My grandfather certainly admired great leadership. And boy do we have a tremendous leader here for you tonight. Twoterm former Ohio Governor john rk fink, is the politician and New York Times bestselling author, former Fox Television host and ultimately, an american citizen believes that unity is the answered to our most common problems. Casey has had a strike career in both the public and private sectors. He served as a member of congress, from central ohio for your 18 years, and was elected to the u. S. House and it just 30 years old. After having become the youngest state senator in ohio history. He went on to become the chairman of the house budget committee. Balance the federal budget four times. A feat not accomplished sense. And leaving congress in 2000, hasek worked as a managing director in the Investment Banking division for them and brothers where he helped Company Secure the resources they need it to succeed and create jobs hasek is the author
Filled with 18yearold freshman girls who never been away from home before. There were a lot of things that went wrong early on. My uncle abel had always told me, you always start at the top . I decided i was going to express my concern and get some things fixed so i called the president s office. And said i would like to have a meeting with the president. The lady blew me off. I called her the next day and the next day and i finally told her, let me explain to you, maam, im going to have a meeting with the president if i have to wait outside the Administration Building for him to come im going to have a meeting. She said come in tomorrow and lets get this over with. I put on my best blue jean and necktie. He was a wonderful guy. I remember going into his office and he had beautiful lighting and beautiful carpeting and a beautiful big desk and beautiful furniture and leather, green leather upholstered chairs and i was pretty impressed with that. I said i been in school about three weeks
The country exploring the american story as we take book to be an American History tv im the road. With the support of the local Cable Television provider, we visited only four cities in the last year. And over the next two hours, we will look and highlight from some of the stops. We begin our special feature in milwaukee. So this is the photograph of the lynching that occurred im august 7th, 1930, near indiana. James cameron was 16 at the time, was supposed to be the third person hanging from the tree. But he miraculously survived the lynching. His two friends abe and tommy, it was like 18 and 19 years old, they were killed that day. By mob. Between ten and 50000 angry white people. This was actually in North Central indiana. Join lynching took place. So you end up writing the book they called the time of the survivor story memoir of the memories of the surviving lynching. Actually started his life that when he was in jail. I was a mistrial that he was finally convicted and sentenced.
Isakson, who is i retiring befoe the end of the year. Over the last few months, thereve been numerous tributes here on the senate floor. Hes been called a real friend and mentor, humbled and tenacious, they dont come any better and that is just by democrats. Thats one of the reasons i suggested that we have a lunch for Johnny Isakson that we are having this afternoon. Just like there is good reason to praise him in the way democrats did, theres good reason that during his chairmanship, his committee passed so many bipartisan bills, 57 to be exact, to help veterans. Its because he treated everyone, democrat, republican, independent, Committee Chair with respect, and he never let the political times then his faith in the ability to gethe something done. He didnt have the loudest voice in the room was often the most influential because he built up years worth of trust in never doubted his word. He was an honest broker. So if they seem to separate the parties on a different issue, he was t