Former Senator Jesse Helms, as stalwart defender of Freedom as ever trod the halls of the United States Congress, passed away, fittingly, on July 4, 2008.
Jesse Helms was forefront on pushing back Communists, Marxists, and Socialists, often having to fight the US State Department to do so. Senator Helms was front and center on pointing out the corruption and uselessness of the United Nations. Senator Helms fought to fund pro-US fighters in what was always a hot "Cold War".
Jesse Helms also revivied the flagging campaign of Ronald Reagan in 1976, helping Reagan win North Carolina when Reagan was losing to Gerald Ford elsewhere. Gerald Ford's White House should never have snubbed Alexander Solzhenitsyn when Jesse Helms brought him to the US. Payback is Hell.
Senator Helms was persistent, consistent, principled, and tenacious. Oh, if only today's GOP could follow his example.
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