DougzInBoston
2008-07-04 15:46:18 UTC
Bob must not be home yet to report this...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/obit_helms
BY DAVID ESPO and WHITNEY WOODWARD, Associated Press Writers
12 minutes ago
RALEIGH, N.C. - Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the
fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and
the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in
Congress, died on the Fourth of July.
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He was 86.
Helms died at 1:15 a.m., said the Jesse Helms Center at Wingate
University in North Carolina.
"He was very comfortable," said former chief of staff Jimy Broughton,
who added Helms died of natural causes in Raleigh.
Helms, who first became known to North Carolina voters as a newspaper
and television commentator, won election to the Senate in 1972 and
decided not to run for a sixth term in 2002.
As he aged, Helms was slowed by a variety of illnesses, including a
bone disorder, prostate cancer and heart problems, and he made his way
through the Capitol on a motorized scooter as his career neared an
end. In April 2006, his family announced that he had been moved into a
convalescent center after being diagnosed with vascular dementia, in
which repeated minor strokes damage the brain.
The center said funeral arrangements were pending.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/obit_helms
BY DAVID ESPO and WHITNEY WOODWARD, Associated Press Writers
12 minutes ago
RALEIGH, N.C. - Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the
fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and
the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in
Congress, died on the Fourth of July.
ADVERTISEMENT
He was 86.
Helms died at 1:15 a.m., said the Jesse Helms Center at Wingate
University in North Carolina.
"He was very comfortable," said former chief of staff Jimy Broughton,
who added Helms died of natural causes in Raleigh.
Helms, who first became known to North Carolina voters as a newspaper
and television commentator, won election to the Senate in 1972 and
decided not to run for a sixth term in 2002.
As he aged, Helms was slowed by a variety of illnesses, including a
bone disorder, prostate cancer and heart problems, and he made his way
through the Capitol on a motorized scooter as his career neared an
end. In April 2006, his family announced that he had been moved into a
convalescent center after being diagnosed with vascular dementia, in
which repeated minor strokes damage the brain.
The center said funeral arrangements were pending.