A portrait of former Sen. Johnny Isakson is displayed during a funeral service for Isakson at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church, Thursday afternoon, Jan. 6, 2022, in Atlanta. Unity is in short supply," McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, told Isakson's memorial service at Peachtree Road Methodist Church in Atlanta. “He particularly loved to vote for a bipartisan bill and authored an awful lot of bipartisan legislation,” said former Georgia senator Saxby Chambliss. A millionaire real estate broker, Isakson was one of the founding fathers of the Georgia Republican Party. Son John Isakson remembered instruction from his father on how to give a speech in middle school, calling it “the best advice anyone ever’s gotten about how to talk to people."

Source: New York Times January 08, 2022 00:55 UTC