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July 09, 2008
Ann Coulter on Jesse Helms I never entirely knew what to think of the recently departed Senator Jesse Helms. He wasn't particularly a libertarian, but all the right people hated him. It's hard not to love the person whom all decent liberals for a generation thought was Satan incarnate.
Also, his active support of Ronald Reagan in the 1976 primary against a sitting president gave him a critical victory that set him up as the 1980 frontrunner. That seems somewhat important.
On a policy level, I appreciated very much his tenure running the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Mostly, I appreciated his critical and highly non-deferential attitude towards the United Nations. He was certainly a good steward of our national sovereignty.
All decent people ie liberals truly hated every last thing about Jesse Helms, but racism has always been the trump card. He was an opponent of some Civil Rights legislation at the time, which doesn't sound so good - though there might be other reasons than hating black folks why someone might oppose the legislation.
But it's not like he was in the Klan like Robert Byrd. His own hiring practices and personal attitudes seem to have been reasonably progressive. Ann Coulter, of course, thinks that Jesse Helms hung the moon, and wrote him a beautiful and loving obituary. She relates one interesting little anecdote that seems to be at least a counter example to the stereotype of Helm's supposed "racism"
In January 1963, a decade before Helms would run for office, he editorialized about Harvey Gantt, the first black student to be admitted to Clemson University in South Carolina.
Helms praised Gantt to the skies, saying he had "stoutly resisted the pose of a conquering hero" and had "turned away from the liberal press and television networks which would glorify him." Gantt, Helms said, just wanted to be an architect and "Clemson is the only college in South Carolina that can teach him how to be one."
I never entirely knew what to think of the recently departed Senator Jesse Helms. He wasn't particularly a libertarian, but all the right people hated him. It's hard not to love the person whom all decent liberals for a generation thought was Satan incarnate.
All decent people ie liberals truly hated every last thing about Jesse Helms, but racism has always been the trump card. He was an opponent of some Civil Rights legislation at the time, which doesn't sound so good - though there might be other reasons than hating black folks why someone might oppose the legislation. 