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Jesse Helms learned early-on to know his people, get in their wagons and ride.
Whether writing, broadcasting or politicking, Brother Helms listened before he spoke and followed before he led.
He was always tuned in to the people who tuned in to his spot on the dial.
Never had any trouble getting along with folks who didn’t agree. When he and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright faced a packed house at Wingate University, it was a gentleman and a lady getting along famously.
All through his political career he would scowl when called a conservative because that was too far to the left for him. It was rare for him to drive down the middle of any road. That’s what kept him re-elected to the United States Senate.
In 1973 he was elected to the US Senate. North Carolina people made sure he stayed right there until he retired in 2003. In those 30 years he never deviated from his position that left was wrong and right was right. He pioneered the idea of raising political funds for his North Carolina elections in all 50 states. That helped him amass more power than most other senators could remember.
“One could say that Jesse Helms was The Conservative Party in the United States”—that from Professor William Link, author of Righteous Warrior: Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism.
Jesse Helms was a 33rd degree Scottish Rite Mason, Grand Orator of the NC Grand Lodge during the years 1965, 1982 and 1991, and a member of the Shrine.
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Produced by the public relations committee of the Grand Lodge AF&AM of Masons in North Carolina,
2921 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh, NC 27628 MMVIII
Author/editor: Walter J. Klein wklein(at)carolina.rr.com
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