Word: jessee
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Rostow had other problems with the White House. It undercut his attempt to appoint the man he wanted as his deputy, Robert Grey, a career State Department official, choosing to give in to the challenge of a few conservative Republican Senators, including North Carolina's Jesse Helms. Reagan, in...
The other major problem is the proliferation of PACs established to support or oppose a candidate that are operated "independent" of the official campaign committee. While Presidential candidates who choose to receive public funds are forbidden to accept any private contribution or coordinate outside expenditures, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled...
On the surface, the mood ranged from cozy to playful as members of the 98th Congress convened to be sworn in last week. In the Senate, New Right Curmudgeon Jesse Helms of North Carolina, whose filibusters made him a renegade late last year, embraced two of his colleagues at once...
Congress resumes session, and North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms immediately begins a new filibuster on an old topic: the "repressive" five-cent federal gas tax approved in December. "Damned if Howard and Ray-gun try to shut me up again," drawls an angry Helms. "They do that and we'll...
On one side was Majority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee, a believer in conciliation and consensus. On the other was a cadre of fervent right-wingers led by North Carolina's Jesse Helms, a maverick ideologue and veteran obstructionist. Ostensibly the issue was the 5? gasoline tax. But after...