Search results
Jan 8, 2015 · If Ronald Reagan was the bright, optimistic persona of modern conservatism, then Jesse Helms, who has died of vascular dementia at 86, was the movement’s dark, brooding alter ego.
Jul 5, 2008 · Helms obituary: The obituary of former North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms in Sunday’s Section A said he was the only senator to vote against making the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a ...
Jesse Helms was a newspaperman-turned-broadcaster whose fiery editorials on WRAL-TV helped propel him to a 30-year career in the United States Senate. Born in Monroe, NC in 1921, Helms’ first job was sweeping the floor of the Monroe Enquirer at age nine.
Feb 10, 2008 · Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism. By William A. Link. Illustrated. 643 pp. St. Martin’s Press. $39.95. David Greenberg, a professor of history and media studies at Rutgers ...
Nov 25, 2020 · North Carolina Republican Sens. Jesse Helms, left, and Lauch Faircloth after Helms won his fifth term in 1996. (Alan Marler/AP) Even as he lost the presidential election decisively, President ...
Jul 5, 2008 · By. STEVEN A. HOLMES. 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 ...
Jan 20, 2000 · January 20, 2000. Web posted at: 1:52 p.m. EST (1852 GMT) UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina, one of the U.N.'s harshest critics, lectured the Security Council on ...
