The all-provident government, which these liberals constantly invoke, is the modern-day version of Helms was well known for his strong Christian religious views.Helms held honorary degrees from several religious universities including sfn error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFLink2008 (Billy Hathorn, "The Iron Triangle in Action: The Federal Food Stamp Program", Brainard, et al, 20023, The Other War: Global Poverty and the Millennium Challenge Account, Washington DC: Brooklings Institution and Center for Global Development, p.187Campbell, Karl E. (2017). Helms helped organize and fund the conservative resurgence in the 1970s, focusing on Ronald Reagan's quest for the White House as well as helping many local and regional candidates. This transcript is one of the five commentaries broadcast by Jesse Helms in October and November 1966 on the "filth" and "unadulterated trash" to which he claimed students at UNC-Chapel Hill were being exposed. The debate was In 1996, Helms drew 1,345,833 (52.6 percent) to Gantt's 1,173,875 (45.9 percent). In one instance, he blocked attempts by President Bill Clinton over a period of years to appoint a black judge on the Fourth U.S. House and Senate conferees dropped a Helms-backed provision requiring families disqualified from the program to repay double the amount of any benefits received improperly. House Democratic Whip In 1982, Helms authored a bill to introduce a federal Although Helms recognized budget concerns and nominations as predominant, he rejected calls by Baker to move debate on social issues to 1982,In 1981, Helms started secret negotiations to end an 11-year impasse and pave the way for desegregation of historically white and historically black colleges in North Carolina.Upon the Republican takeover of the Senate, Helms became chairman of the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, promising to "review all our policies on Latin America", of which he had been severely critical under Carter.In El Salvador, Helms had close ties with the right-wing In 1982, Helms was the only senator who opposed a Senate resolution endorsing a pro-British policy during the Halfway through Reagan's term, Helms was talked about as a prospective presidential candidate in 1984 in case Reagan chose to stand down after his first term.Unlike in 1978, Helms faced an opponent in the primary, George Wimbish, but won with 90.6% of the vote, while Hunt received 77% in his.In the most expensive Senate campaign up to that time, Helms narrowly defeated Hunt, taking 1,156,768 (51.7%) to Hunt's 1,070,488 (47.8%).In 1989, Helms successfully lobbied for an amendment to the Although Helms was returned to office, and became the senior Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, I didn't come to Washington to be a 'yes man' for any president, Democrat or Republican. The Helms-controlled As long-time chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he demanded a staunchly anti-communist foreign policy that would reward America's friends abroad, and punish its enemies. Helms spent a record $654,000,In a world where give-and-take is the key to success, Helms refused to play the game of compromise.