Word: jessee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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An entire wall of Jesse Helms' Capitol Hill office is covered with political cartoons, most of them lampooning him as a rogue and obstructionist. The senior Senator from North Carolina takes impish delight in each and every one of them. "The uglier they are the quicker he puts them up...
Can the Jesse Helms who rises to greet a visitor, full of cracker-barrel charm and as well mannered as an overly polite schoolboy, really be the notorious "Senator No," scourge of the Senate? Poor, misunderstood Jesse Helms. A bulky 6 ft. 2 in., he has a jowly, owlish face...
The Senate is a clubby place that takes pains to protect the minority from the majority. Helms has taken full advantage of that magnanimity, giving some to wonder, What is to protect the majority from Helms? His arsenal is primitive but effective: adding on dilatory amendments, filibustering, running hapless nominees...
Though Helms' friends credit him with shrewdness and moxie, they marvel that anyone so -- well, ordinary -- should be where he is. Even Dorothy Helms, the Senator's wife of 46 years, is puzzled: "To me, he's just little Jesse Helms that I married however many years ago. He's...
Helms' father, known respectfully as "Mr. Jesse," was police chief and stood a full head above 6 ft. One Christmas he gave his son a plaque engraved with the words SON, THE LORD DOESN'T REQUIRE YOU TO WIN. HE JUST EXPECTS YOU TO TRY. The plaque hangs beside Helms...