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At home his record collection runs to albums of Guy Lombardo, John Wayne, Amos 'n 'Andy, as well as Strauss waltzes, movie sound tracks and martial anthologies. The Raleigh house is compact, and hugged by camellia bushes and Chinese holly. In the vestibule hangs a Helms coat of arms with...
(9 of 10) exceed 10¢. Helms alone does not drink strong waters of any kind. "I'm dumb enough without it," he says.
One recent afternoon he was at home slouched in a living-room chair, feet in $7 mail-order sneakers flat on the floor. His dog Patches, essentially a beagle, quivered under the couch. Helms emptied his pockets?some change, a silver cross, a Christian medallion?and talked about his curious...
"I am just speaking for me and what's right for me. Why not go back to traditional moorings? You say that conservatism is guilty of being too simplistic. It is more a choice of right and wrong," he says, settling the question. "My friends say they agree with me...
Helms belittles his role at the last two Republican National Conventions, where he shoved the party platforms as far to the right as they could go. Both times his name was placed in nomination for Vice President, and he ceremoniously declined. A third, charmed time? "No need to be cute...