Word: raleighs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Helms also knows his people. For years he was a TV political commentator in Raleigh, and his bristling, anti-Government editorials gained him a wide audience. Back home in North Carolina last week, speaking to the Chamber of Commerce, Helms moved easily through the crowd, always deferential, always courtly, touching in his folksy way on the mess the country is in. He listened to the familiar urgings to keep up the good fight. A thin film of sweat covered his face, a reminder of Helms' intensity; he is not a gregarious, double-handshake politician who thrusts himself at crowds...
...Raleigh, his home town now, is headquarters of the Congressional Club. He created the club in 1973 to pay off his campaign debts. By the time he ran for a second term in 1978, the club was staffed by 150 people and raised almost $8 million for his re-election and another $8 million in 1980. Its heavy impact is feared by many Democrats. Club mailings and TV ads are hard-hitting, sometimes vicious. The club backed John East for the Senate in North Carolina last fall, for example, and so mangled the record of his opponent, conservative Democratic Senator...
...United Press International swallowed the Ford story-and swallowed their pride later in the night with corrected versions. Eastern radio and television stations using the wire-service reports on their 11 o'clock newscasts got burned. So did the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, the Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer and the Shreveport (La.) Times, all of which had a Reagan-Ford ticket for part of their press runs...