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Former Republican N.C. Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86


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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Former Sen. Jesse 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....

 

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Former Sen. Jesse 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....

 

By WHITNEY WOODWARD and DAVID ESPO

 

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A truly great man. Ahead of his times. Like Jefferson and Adams died on Independence Day. A petriot to the end. I bet Jimmy Carter dies on May day.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm. - Milton Friedman

 

 

"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." - James Madison

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