I'm sure this has already been posted? But I should get to post it anyway. Can you believe i didn't hear about this? I was on Fire Island, not Uzbekistan. I can't believe that none of my friends called me to give me the good news. I had a really great weekend, but news like this could only have made it better. What a shame.
Jesse Helms Dies at 86; Conservative Force in the Senate
By STEVEN A. HOLMES
Jesse Helms, the former North Carolina senator with the courtly manner and mossy drawl who turned his hard-edged conservatism against civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art, died early Friday. He was 86.
Mr. Helms’s former chief of staff, James W. C. Broughton, said the senator died at the Mayview Convalescent Center in Raleigh, N.C., where he had been living for the last several years. Mr. Helms had been in “a period of declining health” recently, Mr. Broughton said
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/05/us/politics/00helms.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
Jesse Helms Dies at 86; Conservative Force in the Senate
By STEVEN A. HOLMES
Jesse Helms, the former North Carolina senator with the courtly manner and mossy drawl who turned his hard-edged conservatism against civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art, died early Friday. He was 86.
Mr. Helms’s former chief of staff, James W. C. Broughton, said the senator died at the Mayview Convalescent Center in Raleigh, N.C., where he had been living for the last several years. Mr. Helms had been in “a period of declining health” recently, Mr. Broughton said
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/05/us/politics/00helms.html?hp=&pagewanted=print