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Never one to mince words, Senator Jesse Helms, the ultra-conservative Republican slated to head the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, expanded on his Nov. 18 remark that President Clinton is not up to the job of Commander in Chief. The North Carolinian followed up by telling a Raleigh newspaper that Clinton was so unpopular with the military that he had "better watch out" and "have a bodyguard" if he visits Helms' state. Though the Senator later conceded his remark was a "mistake," the incendiary statement provoked anger from congressional Democrats, solemn disapproval from the President and verbal minuets from Republican...
...first Bill Clinton knew exactly what he wanted to do after learning that North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms had told a Raleigh newspaper that the President "better have a bodyguard" if he ever visited his state. "I'm ready to go to North Carolina right now," an angry Clinton informed White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, who brought him the news last Tuesday. The deep strike in enemy territory was quickly dismissed as impulsive. "We can't just react every time Jesse Helms decides to push his crazy buttons," said a senior official...
...Secret Service today said it dropped a review of Helms' comment since -- surprise -- it did not constitute a threat. "We always knew the senator was never a threat or a target of an investigation, but we had to follow up," said Secret Service spokesman Jaime Cagigas. Jim Rosen, the Raleigh News & Observer reporter whose Monday interview with Helms started the fracas, says the senator made the remark "with a bit of a laugh, which perhaps should have been better conveyed in the article."Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...
...citizens of North Carolina . . . anytime he chooses to visit us," Helms said in today's statement. But in an interview that took place Monday -- just as the flap hit over Helms' comments about Clinton's not being up to commander-in-chief duties -- and was published today in the Raleigh News & Observer, Helms said that Clinton "better watch out if he comes down here." Today Helms said he made a mistake "which I shall not repeat." Although Democrats rebuked Helms and Republicans distanced themselves from both sets of comments, Helms went ahead and again slammed Clinton, saying the president...
...take oral sex. Not surprisingly, both men and women preferred receiving it to giving it. But who would have guessed that so many white, college- educated men would have done it (about 80%) and so few blacks (51%)? Skip Long, a 33-year-old African American from Raleigh, North Carolina, thinks his race's discomfort with oral sex may owe much to religious teaching and the legacy of slavery: according to local legend, it was something slaves were required to do for their masters. Camille Paglia is convinced that oral sex is % a culturally acquired preference that a generation...