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...himself ?and that trusts him more. He has a computer-driven fund raising organization, the Congressional Club, which has raised millions of dollars for Helms and dozens of other conservative candidates. He has a born politician's ease with a crowd, a saint's generosity toward individuals in distress???and a Malthusian indifference to human suffering on a larger scale. He is, in short, in the great tradition of amiable, infuriating, pious, callous, dangerous, ordinary and compelling characters who from time to time emerge to animate American politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To the Right, March!: Jesse Helms | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

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