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Helms remembered hearing Walter Cronkite say, “Down in North Carolina, a fellow named Jesse Helms has been elected to the United States Senate.” Helms was sworn into office in January 1973 and quickly rose to an influential position in the Senate, where he is credited as being one of the key leaders in the rise of the modern conservative ...
Jul 5, 2008 · By Steven A. Holmes. July 5, 2008. Jesse Helms, the former North Carolina senator with the courtly manner and mossy drawl who turned his hard-edged conservatism against civil rights, gay rights...
Jul 4, 2008 · Former North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms died early this morning in Raleigh. He was 86 years old, and he'd been sick for awhile. He died of natural causes, according to his former chief of...
Jul 4, 2008 · Former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms, who represented North Carolina in Congress for 30 consecutive years, died Friday. He was 86. Helms died in Raleigh, N.C., at about 1:15 a.m., according to...
Jul 4, 2008 · The North Carolina Republican spent 30 years in the U.S. Senate, where he became one of the most prominent conservatives in America. Jesse Helms died early today in his home state. He was 86 ...
Jesse Alexander Helms Jr. (October 18, 1921 – July 4, 2008) was an American politician. A leader in the conservative movement, he served as a senator from North Carolina from 1973 to 2003. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1995 to 2001, he had a major voice in foreign policy. Helms helped organize and fund the ...
Jul 4, 2008 · Jesse Helms, the former North Carolina senator whose courtly manner and mossy drawl barely masked a hard-edged conservatism that opposed civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art, died ...
