No bickering, Helms tells children in will
Jesse Helms wanted his family to keep the peace.
2 titans fought as friends
Jesse Helms and Bill Friday were products of the same red clay soil -- part of of the old cotton, Bible-Belt South.
Dole fails to name AIDS bill for Helms
Former Sen. Jesse Helms might have had a personal evolution on AIDS policy, but the journey wasn't enough to stop protests when U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole tried to name an AIDS relief bill after him.
State: No ultimatum in protest of Helms
Under the Dome:Spokesman Brian Long says the agriculture department never threatened the job of former Standards Lab head L.F. Eason III over his refusal to lower the flag to honor former Sen. Jesse Helms.
Funeral honors Helms the man
Jesse Helms was laid to rest Tuesday in a simple, dignified ceremony that emphasized the man rather than the conservative force who became a beloved and despised household name in American politics.
At rest, Helms stirs a crowd
Jesse Helms' funeral today at Hayes Barton Baptist Church, is expected to draw prominent political figures from North Carolina and elsewhere.
Jesse Helms: A life on the right
' Being remembered isn't important. What is important is standing up for what you believe to be right, hoping that you have done everything you can to preserve the moral and spiritual principles that made America great in the first place.'
Church, family prepare for final goodbye to Helms
North Carolina's late U.S. senator, Jesse Helms, will lie in repose from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday at Hayes Barton Baptist Church in Raleigh.
You kind of had to be there
Sheehan:Jesse Helms, rest his soul, was one of those public figures hard to understand if you weren't born in North Carolina.
Small-town upbringing shaped a senator
Helms aimed to protect the values of places like Monroe.
Arrangements
Jesse Helms will lie in repose from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday at Hayes Barton Baptist Church in Raleigh.
Defiant Helms drove South's GOP
Jesse Helms will be remembered as one of the leading figures in the rise of the Republican Party in the South -- a man who helped move conservative Democrats to the GOP, according to historians and political experts who watched his career.
A timeline of Jesse Helms' life
Key dates in his life and political career.
Dole remembers Helms as genteel, generous
Sen. Elizabeth Dole learned of Jesse Helms' death Friday morning and called Dorothy, Helms' wife of 65 years.
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