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olympic
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Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:59 pm |
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R.I.P.
Controversial former U.S. politician Jesse Helmes has passed away.
The divisive senator from North Carolina died early on July 4th.
He was 86 years old.
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| yankee-in-france
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Sat Jul 05, 2008 5:08 am |
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He was quite a guy. I certainly didn't agree with his politics but I believe that he was a patriot, and it is ironic that he passed away on the 4th of July. RIP.
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| LISA
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Sat Jul 05, 2008 6:11 am |
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Saturday, July 05, 2008
By WHITNEY WOODWARD, Associated Press Writers
RALEIGH, N.C. — Former Sen. Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where he relished his battles against liberals, Communists and occasionally a fellow Republican, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86.
"It's just incredible that he would die on July 4th, the same day of the Declaration of Independence and the same day that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died, and he certainly is a patriot in the mold of those great men," said former North Carolina GOP Rep. Bill Cobey.
An iconic figure of the South, remembered by many for his opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Helms had faded from public view as his health declined. He died of natural causes early Friday morning at the Raleigh convalescent home where he had lived for the past several years. "He was very comfortable," said former chief of staff Jimmy Broughton.
Funeral services are planned for Tuesday at Helms' longtime church in Raleigh.
The son of a police chief, North Carolina voters first learned of Helms through his newspaper and television commentaries. They were a harbinger of what was to come, as he won election to the Senate in 1972 and rose to become a powerful committee chairman before deciding not to seek a sixth term in 2002.
"Compromise, hell! ... If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?" Helms wrote in a 1959 editorial.
Compromise, Helms would not.
His habit of blocking nominations and legislation during his first term led his former employer, The News & Observer of Raleigh, to nickname him "Senator No" _ and Helms loved it. He was unafraid of inconveniencing his fellow senators, forcing filibusters before holidays and once objecting to a request by phoning in his dissent from home while watching Senate proceedings on television.
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More at link. http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Jul05/0,4670,ObitHelms,00.html
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