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Jesse Helms

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Senator Jesse Helms has passed away - 7/4/2008

 

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A Look Back At Jesse Helms

 

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USA: SENATOR HELMS PROMISES TO STAND FIRM AGAINST WILLIAM WELD

 

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President Reagan Meeting with Senator Jesse Helms on June 29, 1984

 

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WAVY Archive: 1981 Senator Jesse Helms

Jesse Alexander Helms Jr. was an American politician and a leader in the conservative movement. He was elected five times as a Republican to the United States Senate from North Carolina. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1995 to 2001 he had a major voice in foreign policy. Helms helped organize and fund the conservative resurgence in the 1970s, focusing on Ronald Reagan's quest for the White House as well as helping many local and regional candidates.
  • Personal 

  • Childhood and education (1921–1940) 

  • Entry into politics 

  • Capitol Broadcasting Company 

  • Senate campaign of 1972 

  • Entering the Senate 

  • Foreign policy 

  • Nixon resignation 

  • 1976 presidential election 

  • Torrijos–Carter treaties 

  • 1978 re-election campaign 

  • New Senate term 

  • 1980 presidential election 

  • Republicans take the Senate 

  • Food stamp program 

  • Economic policies 

  • Social issues 

  • Latin America 

  • 1984 re-election campaign 

  • Third Senate term (1985–1991) 

  • HIV legislation 

  • Primary 

  • Campaign 

  • Outcome 

  • Fourth Senate term (1991–1997) 

  • Keating Five investigation 

  • National Endowment for the Arts 

  • Remarks re Moseley Braun and Clinton 

  • Republican majority 

  • Helms–Burton Act 

  • 1996 re-election campaign 

  • Weld ambassadorial nomination 

  • Cuba 

  • Final Senate years 

  • Retirement 

  • Post-Senate life (2003–2008) 

  • Death 

  • Views on race 

  • Views on homosexuality 

  • Family 

  • Religious views