Boo for Jesse Helms

The Washington Post;  September 1, 2001 ;     587 words ......Carney commends retiring Sen. Jesse Helms for his commitment to "limited...the deeply ingrained racism of Jesse Helms. Nor should Carney. I, for one...commitment to conservative causes. Jesse Helms is an unrepentant racist who has...

Dancing on the grave of Jesse Helms

The Boston Globe;  July 9, 2008 ;     700+ words ...LIBERALS DIDN'T think much of Jesse Helms when he was alive, and their feelings didn't soften with his death. "Jesse Helms, you rat bastard, burn in hell...Carolina senator was memorialized as "Jesse Helms, American Bigot." For its online...

Jesse Helms on offense: the avatar of the American right cannot let his...

U.S. News & World Report;  May 14, 1990 ;     700+ words ...Jesse Helms on offense Have you had lunch yet? Coming...the questioner is warning that his boss, Jesse Helms, is about to do something revolting. See...even Dan Rather's ratings are down. But Jesse Helms isn't satisfied. He still believes this...

Farewell to the Helmsman.(Senator Jesse Helms retires)

Foreign Policy;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Jesse Helms has had a fairly simple political...to imagine that he did not have Jesse Helms somewhere in mind when he spoke...April ( Why the World Is Better for Jesse Helms ), Council on Foreign Relations...

Jesse Helms, GOP icon, dead at 86 ; A courtly but polarizing force

The Boston Globe;  July 5, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Jesse Helms, the North Carolina Republican...hands were white. Gantt, Mr. Helms's opponent, was black. The...to race. According to Mr. Helms, gays who suffered from AIDS...militant-activist-mean lesbian." Mr. Helms's impact was no less striking...financial largesse helped make Mr. Helms ...

Jesse Helms returns to Washington to finish out Senate term

AP Worldstream;  September 3, 2002 ;     306 words ......Dateline: WASHINGTON Sen. Jesse Helms returned to Washington on...July. Under doctors' orders, Helms will not immediately take...this week, Broughton said. Helms will skip Congress' ceremonial...into a more normal schedule. Helms' staffers will probably have...Wednesday, Broughton said. ...

Retiring Sen. Jesse Helms caved to pro-Israel lobby halfway through his...

The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs;  March 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Middle East publications. Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) will retire in 2003 after...occasion was the closest election in Jesse Helms' already long career. Prior to his run for re-election Jesse Helms had been described by the Israel...

AFTER 30 YEARS, HELMS BIDS ADIEU TO SENATE; SEN. JESSE HELMS SAYS HIS...

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  November 20, 2002 ;     376 words ......to relax after a 30-year career in politics, Sen. Jesse Helms said farewell to his colleagues Tuesday and cast...independence ... if one did not already know where Jesse Helms stood, Jesse Helms was always ready to tell you where he stood. The...

Jesse Helms, Making Connections; Senator Honored by Hillsdale College

The Washington Post;  December 7, 2001 ;     700+ words ......inton's bridges to the 21st century -- Jesse Helms is trying to span a bigger and...but Republican today more in a Jesse Helms, Bob Barr sort of way. From the...are, at least, "of Hillsdale." Jesse Helms didn't go to Hillsdale, but he...

Jesse Helms to Retire

CBS Evening News with Dan Rather;  August 21, 2001 ;     428 words ......decision from veteran U.S. senator Jesse Helms. The North Carolina Republican...politics, reviled by the left. SEN. JESSE HELMS (R), NORTH CAROLINA: If the Liberal...ORR: But now, at age 79, Senator Jesse Helms has decided to retire when his...

Conservatives hail Jesse Helms

Human Events;  August 27, 2001 ;     700+ words ......retiring from the, Senate in 2002, Jesse Helms(whose column once ran in HUMAN...to put them into action. "When Jesse Helms departs from the Senate, he will...political action committee "was with Jesse Helms then and has supported him in every...

Another Poke At Jesse Helms

The Washington Post;  December 10, 1994 ;     383 words ......Steven Livingston's article "Jesse Helms's Friends" {op-ed, Nov. 27...current media frenzy to demonize Jesse Helms. The article implies that Helms...senior foreign policy aide" to Helms, refused to corroborate Helms's statement that he did not...

Last Jesse Helms Interview

Hannity & Colmes (Fox News Network);  July 7, 2008 ;     700+ words ......longest serving senators passed away. Jesse Helms was 86 years old, and in his five...the freight train of liberalism. JESSE HELMS, FORMER SENATOR: That's right...example, and people say, "Ain't you Jesse Helms?" And I say, "What's left of him...

Only one person is fit to be envoy to Chile: Jesse Helms

Chicago Sun-Times;  July 22, 1986 ;     433 words ......can always find a friend in Sen. Jesse Helms. Gen. Augusto Pinochet, Chile's...activity." Before you get upset at Jesse Helms, let's look at it from his standpoint...tear-gassing his country's citizens. Is Jesse Helms interfering with our South American...

A lion on the right; Jesse Helms' mixed legacy.(OPED)(POLITICAL BOOKS)

The Washington Times;  March 4, 2008 ;     700+ words ......his last stand. That's when Sen. Jesse Helms came to his aid, blasting the Ford...t end there. Ronald Reagan and Jesse Helms were arguably the two most important...massive book, Righteous Warrior: Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism...