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Jesse Helms, R.I.P.(Obituary)(Brief article)
JESSE HELMS began his political career, as one of North Carolina's most popular radio commentators, upholding the politics of segregation. There are second acts in American lives, pace F. Scott Fitzgerald, though in the wake of Helms's death, liberals have been unwilling to forget his first act. Nor should it be forgotten: Segregation was a bad system that did not want to die; Helms--and the early NATIONAL REVIEW--defended its right to live.
This does not mean that Helms's spirited opposition, after he had become a senator, to affirmative action-most pungently expressed in the white-hands ad he ran in his 1990 race with Harvey Gantt--is invalidated by his past. The left-wing poses that Barack Obama, and Bill and Hillary Clinton, struck in their youth do not, by themselves, undermine their later ...
- North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms Blocks Bill Setting Webcast Royalties.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News October 19, 2002 700+ words
...to lower rates even further. An aide to Sen. Jesse Helms, North Carolina Republican, said yesterday the senator supports...minute hold on the bill after small webcasters in North Carolina expressed concern they were left out of negotiations...
- Trouble in Jesse Helms country. (North Carolina) (race for Republican...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Guillory, Ferrel May 3, 1986 700+ words
Trouble in Jesse Helms Country Meet Coy Privette...would seem to be Senator Jesse Helms's kind of guy. Indeed...maintain its hold on North Carolina's second Senate seat...and the closest thing North Carolina has to a Mr. Republican...
- Helms's last stand? The Senate's most renowned right-winger faces a new day in...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Yeoman, Barry October 14, 1996 700+ words
...t matter that Jesse Helms has befriended...corporate world of North Carolina Democratic politics...of people in North Carolina who don't have...he still has Jesse Helms as his opponent...felt shut out of North Carolina's Democratic...
- The race in black and white; Helms vs. Gantt will test the limits of tolerance....
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Baer, Donald July 23, 1990 700+ words
...The small textile town in North Carolina's upper Piedmont was supposed...endorsing incumbent Senator Jesse Helms. "Tough crowd," muttered...generation, now 30 percent of North Carolina's population, tends to...nationally in SAT scores, and North Carolina had the highest ...
- A political paradox: North Carolina's twenty-five years under Jim Hunt and...
- Magazine article from: Southern Cultures Guillory, Ferrel March 22, 1998 700+ words
...thousand citizens of North Carolina gathered outdoors...months later, the North Carolina General Assembly...S. senator. Jesse Helms, who was in his...Jim Hunt and Jesse Helms have dominated North Carolina's politics during...
- JESSE HELMS STRIKES BACK THE ISSUE: CAN DENVER-LONDON SERVICE BEGIN AS...
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) April 26, 1998 700+ words
Help! We're being held hostage by Sen. Jesse Helms! Yes, the North Carolina Republican has managed to delay Department of Transportation approval of the nonstop service between Denver and London that's...
- Clout.(includes related articles on Temple Sloan, Rusty Goode, Bob Warwick,...
- Magazine article from: Business North Carolina Gray, Tim July 1, 1999 700+ words
...of the University of North Carolina system, has position...prerequisite of power in North Carolina: money. It is, after...the list, but Sen. Jesse Helms doesn't. Hunt...preferably big ones, to North Carolina. Helms cares more...
- Senator no v. governor maybe. (Jesse Helms and Jim Hunt of North Carolina)
- Magazine article from: National Review Shadroui, Phillip November 16, 1984 700+ words
...GOVERNOR MAYBE JESSE HELMS, political folklore...state zoo, the North Carolina General Assembly...Laurinburg, North Carolina, staring down...this century, Jesse Helms went to Washington...Ford in the 1976 North Carolina primary. The...