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Article: Obituary: Jesse Helms.(Obituary)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- July 5, 2008
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Jesse Helms, a conservative American, died on July 4th, aged 86
SUPPORTERS put the best face they could on him. A real southern gentleman, from owlish glasses to black wingtip shoes, who would hold the door for any woman and thank you, with a nod and a smile, for smoking North Carolinian tobacco in his office. A kind-hearted soul, who had adopted a boy with cerebral palsy, who bought ice-cream for his congressional pages and was delightful at dinner, both to Democrats and Republicans. A true patriot, who saw America as God's country and the world's hope, who defended its values against the liberal media and the "muck" of decadent artists, and who had no truck with ...