Saxby Chambliss: “In two short weeks President-elect Obama will be inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States. I am proud of…”

“In two short weeks President-elect Obama will be inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States. I am proud of this moment for him and for our Nation. The new President will have my prayers and support. I believe it is appropriate to link in some small way the President-elect's great and historic victory to the courage and integrity of Judge Bell. In the 1950s and 1960s across the South and across our Nation as a whole, the country worked to implement the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education. While serving as chief of staff to Georgia Governor Ernest Vandiver, Judge Bell provided counsel to the Sibley Commission. This blue-ribbon panel held hearings throughout Georgia for the purpose of educating citizens on the inevitability of public school desegregation. In my view, his efforts on this commission were an important step down the path Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others traveled that enabled Atlanta to become the city and community that it is today, for Georgia to truly become the empire State of the South, and for our Nation to elect our new President.”