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Jesse Helms Dies at 86

nysun.com » 2008 » July » 4th » Jesse Helms Dies at 86

RALEIGH, N.C. — Senator Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists, and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86. Helms died at 1:15 a.m., said the Jesse Helms Center at Wingate University in North Carolina. "He was very comfortable," said a former chief of staff, Jimy … Continue Reading »

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