Senator Jesse Helms refused to vote for the King Federal holiday. He said that King was a womanizer of low morale character and probably a communist. Helms said that if King was so great a man and if there was no reason to hide the records on him, why were they put under lock and key until 2027? His “I have a dream” speech was largely plagerized and the night before he was shot he was holed up in a motel room with two white prostitutes, had sex with them, then beat the hell out of them. The FBI has all of this on tape. This is the man that got a Federal holiday in his honor. And has the years have passed, republicans, have joined with democrats to canonize him. What a joke.
Well....if I had my way....we would be naming many streets and schools after the late Sen. Jesse Helms. He was my all time favorite senator of my lifetime. Of course he is vilified as a reactionary ogre by the media.....but I find that true now of most of the people I have great admiration for including the late Sen. Joe McCarthy.
Whittaker Chambers, too, was absolutely savaged and demonized by the media as they glorified and fawned over Alger Hiss.
Why is it that I feel I am on the wrong side of history?
I had the honor calling Jesse Helms my friend. When I was in the Air Force I wrote him a few times and he always replied back. Not some form letter a staffer sends out. I finally got the chance to meet him at his office in Raleigh years ago. He was as humble and they they come and he wanted to know about my life, my parents and the military. About the only time we talked politics was when I brought it up. I thanked him for being so supportive of the Armed Forces. I also told him I grew up a fan of his in the 60s when he a commentator on WRAL TV. He was always talking about communism, the danger of affirmative action and homosexuality. Glad he’s not around now to see how the homosexuals have taken over the military.