Cord Byrd: “I want to comment on two very distinguished Senators from Georgia, Senator Richard Brevard Russell and his successor…”

“I want to comment on two very distinguished Senators from Georgia, Senator Richard Brevard Russell and his successor, the very able Senator Samuel Augustus Nunn. On January 24, 1996, I had the great pleasure of taking part in the dedication of a statute of Senator Russell in the rotunda of the Russell Senate Office building. The unveiling of Senator Russell's statue last month occurred 25 years after Senator Russell's death in 1971. I was very pleased to be a part of this ceremony, because of my own high regard and esteem for Senator Russell. Twenty-four years ago, in 1972, I offered the resolution to rename the 'Old Senate Office Building,' as it was then known, in honor of Senator Russell. The grandeur embodied in both the building and the statue are fitting monuments to the very great legacy of statesmanship bequeathed to us by Senator Richard Brevard Russell.”