Jesse Helms
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Jesse Alexander Helms Jr. was an American politician, a journalist, and Navy veteran. A leader in the conservative and nationalist movement, he represented North Carolina in the United States Senate f
Jesse Helms
Advice from Jesse A. Helms Sr., to his son; Jesse Helms Center in Wingate, North Carolina
U.S. Senator Richard Russell Jr. of Georgia told Helms in 1952 that he hoped Helms would one day become a senator; Helms achieved this 20 years later, but Russell did not live to see it.
Helms c. 1973
Joe Biden
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Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American retired politician who was the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Delaware in the United
Jesse Helms
…Helms pushed for reform of the UN and blocked payment of the United States' dues. Helms secured sufficient reforms that a colleague, future president Joe Biden of Delaware said that "As only Nixon could go to China, only Helms could fix the U.N." Helms passed few laws of his own in part because of this…
Official portrait, 2021
Biden in 1952; at age 10
Biden pictured by Syracuse University in 1968
Secretary of the Senate Francis R. Valeo swearing in Biden into the Senate on January 5, 1973