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RALEIGH, N.C. - Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who served 30 years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July, the Jesse Helms research center says. He was 86.
The center, based at Wingate University in North Carolina, said Friday that he died at 1:15 a.m. Jimmy Broughton, Helms' former chief of staff, says the former senator died of natural causes in Raleigh.
Helms built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during his decades in Congress. He was slowed in later age by a variety of illnesses, including a bone disorder, prostate cancer and heart problems.
Guess that saying about only the good die young might be true.One of the icons of racial politics Helms was infamous for many things(racial politics,gay bashing) but may be best known for this campaign ad about "quotas" that helped him narrowly win re-election.
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Edit: Here is a link listing some of his quotes.
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One example of a Helms quote.
"To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend that he doesn't have a natural instinct for rhythm and for singing and dancing." — Helms responding in 1956 to criticism that a fictional black character in his newspaper column was offensive."
And I just heard on TV Bush said in respnse to Helm's passing "America has lost a great patriot".Damn do the pubs deserve to lose LOL.
RALEIGH, N.C. - Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who served 30 years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July, the Jesse Helms research center says. He was 86.
The center, based at Wingate University in North Carolina, said Friday that he died at 1:15 a.m. Jimmy Broughton, Helms' former chief of staff, says the former senator died of natural causes in Raleigh.
Helms built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during his decades in Congress. He was slowed in later age by a variety of illnesses, including a bone disorder, prostate cancer and heart problems.
Guess that saying about only the good die young might be true.One of the icons of racial politics Helms was infamous for many things(racial politics,gay bashing) but may be best known for this campaign ad about "quotas" that helped him narrowly win re-election.
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Edit: Here is a link listing some of his quotes.
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One example of a Helms quote.
"To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend that he doesn't have a natural instinct for rhythm and for singing and dancing." — Helms responding in 1956 to criticism that a fictional black character in his newspaper column was offensive."
And I just heard on TV Bush said in respnse to Helm's passing "America has lost a great patriot".Damn do the pubs deserve to lose LOL.
