Jesse Helms/early Career 1940-1972

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    They robbed the Danville train.
    And the people they did say, for many miles away,
    ‘Twas the outlaws Frank and Jesse James.
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    Mr. Clinton better watch out if he comes down here. He’d better have a bodyguard.
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    He had long before indulged most unfavourable sentiments of our fellow-subjects in America. For, as early as 1769,... he had said of them, “Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.”
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    I’ve been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.
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