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On another, more public afternoon in Mocksville, N.C., at a Masonic picnic, Helms is not asked to account for his future. His speech is scheduled between Ferris wheel rides and an all-you-can-eat feast of baked ham and lemon pie. Supporters mob him all day. He is happy...
A well-wisher flutters up, and Helms remembers. "What kin are you to R.L.?" he asks.
Another Southern man of the people, Louisiana's Huey Long, would have found Helms incomprehensible. "Anybody that lets his public policies get mixed up with his religious prejudices," Long said, "is a goddamned fool." But Helms, heedless, faces the crowd this day in bleachers on the parched crab grass and...
The right-wing social activism of Jesse Helms and his supporters may play in Peoria, but last week it bombed in New Haven. In a letter to 1,267 incoming freshmen, Yale University President A. Bartlett Giamatti, 43, denounced a "self-proclaimed Moral Majority" and the New Right generally as...
BUSING. This is one issue on which the New Right can attract votes from legislators who would not side with it on any other matters. But again the question is how best to stop it? Jesse Helms has introduced a rider-to the bill authorizing funds for the Department of...