[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 93 (Monday, June 23, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H5684]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


            MOURNING THE PASSING OF HON. MAYNARD H. JACKSON

  (Ms. CARSON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. CARSON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, I would like first to affirm what 
was said by the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Watson), who so 
eloquently gave a very brief overview of the life and work of the 
Honorable Maynard Jackson. Maynard Jackson was perhaps one of the most 
profound individuals that I have met in a lifetime. He was very 
dedicated. He had a lot of energy. He had a lot of perseverance. He had 
a lot of vision. And indeed he was very spiritual.
  As I sat there and heard the gentlewoman from California talk about 
him, I could not help but think about John the Revelator that sat on 
the lonely island of Patmos, looked at an old city but envisioned what 
was great for a new city, and then Maynard Jackson began to build a new 
city, Atlanta, Georgia, created millions of millionaires, did much to 
bring the city to the forefront. Maynard Jackson was a very unassuming 
individual, too. He followed scripture in terms of not boasting about 
himself but letting his light so shine by his good works.
  He is an individual that I will never forget. He is a person that I 
know his family is in very great sorrow for. He was the son of a 
Baptist preacher, and so perhaps that explains some of the eloquence 
that Maynard Jackson had. But this country, not just Atlanta, not just 
his family but the whole country has indeed lost an incredible, a 
remarkable individual in that of the Honorable Maynard Jackson.

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