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He learned, principally, how to cause a ruckus. Helms was never seduced by the Senate's clubbiness. It was as if he had crated up his Raleigh TV scripts, driven five hours north, and started pitching those editorials into the Senate hopper. If anyone took notice, it was generally with...
While it once seemed that Helms would be a strange, one-term evanescence, he began to attract a following. He was never sniping away just for the citizens of Raleigh and Asheville and Monroe. By his extreme doggedness on one issue or another?busing, feminism, gold, guns, always abortion?he...
Only when it comes to tobacco has Helms behaved with ordinary congressional pragmatism. The several federal tobacco programs amount to one of the most thoroughgoing intrusions of Government into the agricultural marketplace. Helms, the ferocious free-marketeer, nonetheless strives to perpetuate it. But even in serving that home-state interest...
Not that he isn't loyal to the tobacco cause. Helms smokes (but does not always inhale) an occasional Lucky Strike. When others light up in his presence, he says, " 'Predate it." Indeed, Helms' single flamboyance is a maniacal Southern courtesy: he grabs every serving spoon, offers to carry every...
Whatever it is, Helms would rather do it himself. He fries his own breakfasts (eggs, bacon and biscuits), types his own letters in a spare?truly spare?basement room in Raleigh, and refuses to be chauffeured. He drives his own anonymous 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88, in which he listens exclusively...