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August 11, 2005
/ 6 Av, 5765
Depicting the life of a founder of modern American conservatism
By
Bob Tyrrell
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I have been reading an advance copy of memoirs
written by Jesse Helms, the retired North Carolina senator who braved the
liberals' indignation to create the politics that now prevail on Capitol
Hill and in the White House, namely, modern American conservatism. Helms did
not do this alone, and arguably, he was only a member of the first-string
team whose quarterback was Ronald Reagan. Yet Helms was very important,
particularly on the social values issues that average Americans now deem so
compelling. His memoir, "Here's Where I Stand," is a very good refresher
course on how America moved from the dreary, futile governance of Jimmy
Carter to the present vigor of a proud, can-do America.
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Helms writes in straightforward prose from a foundation of
beliefs that are solidly conservative. He tells a good story. In reading
"Here's Where I Stand," I have not been able to slay the fear that when this
book comes out on Aug. 30, the dominant liberal culture, the Kultursmog, is
going to rain down on him. It will malign his motives and values and
belittle his achievements. What will be left is another grotesque image of
the conservative public figure: a bigoted, small-minded, not very
intelligent, and provincial. And so, Helms will be interred in the liberals'
burial ground along with Reagan, Richard Nixon, and all the other political
leaders they have opposed. Across the street is the liberal museum of
leadership. Franklin Roosevelt is there with all his famous successors, John
Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and several of Helms' colleagues from
the Senate: Teddy Kennedy or his sidekick Christopher Dodd the blood runs
thin. Strangely, Lyndon Johnson is hardly visible.
The Kultursmog has been writing American history for us for
decades. Review it for yourself. It contains no admirable or impressive
conservatives. Yet here we are in 2005 with much of the country governed by
conservatives and conservative values. No wonder the liberals are so
perplexed and angry. They are a strange band of "rastaquoueres" living in
what for them is a strange land. Nonetheless, they still have the capacity,
owing to their hold on the culture's centers of influence, to belittle those
whom they do not like and to present them as grotesqueries. Watch the
liberals go to work over the next few weeks on President George W. Bush's
perfectly sensible Supreme Court nominee, John Roberts. This week one of
their leading polluters, NARAL Pro-Choice America, is airing fraudulent
television advertisements presenting Roberts, when he was deputy Solicitor
General during the presidency of George H. W. Bush, as a supporter of
"violent fringe groups and a convicted clinic bomber." Well, as memoirist
Helms says of so many of the deceits he had to deal with, horsefeathers.
In "Here's Where I Stand," Helms chronicles reminiscences of
scores of friends, Barry Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan and his great friend Lady
Thatcher. At the end of the senator's long career, a frail but spirited
Thatcher came to the dedication of his Helms Center in rural North Carolina.
She stayed for the entire three-day ceremony. She knew she was with friends.
Helms also remembers those with whom he has disagreed. That would be every
liberal Democrat from the past thirty years. Unfortunately, he is too much
the gentleman to pass on a bad word about any of them. Even Boy Clinton gets
a polite send-off.
There are two topics on which Helms is particularly worth
reading, race relations and the United Nations. On race relations, he
manfully comes out and makes the case for states' rights and the integration
that he seems to think could have been worked out in the last quarter of the
20th century without heavy-handed federal involvement. I am not sure his
optimism is warranted. The denial of Constitutional freedoms had been
suffered by blacks for a long time. A jolt of federal power did the trick.
The extension of federal power into areas not recognized by generations of
Americans (and not always salutary) now seems to be receding. Blacks have
their rights, and with the exception of affirmative action's enduring use,
the Constitutional balance seems to be reemerging. I accept Helms'
insistence that he favored equal rights. I just doubt his approach would
have worked.
On the United Nations, he has my vote every time. Wherever he
mentions that arrogant, corrupt organization, he is on the money. At the
very end of his memoir, he reprints his very compelling speech to the United
Nations as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. There he
notified the assembled crooks and agents of tyranny that American
sovereignty cannot be usurped. It is dependent on the "consent of the
American people." He reminds them of the dreadful job they have done as
peacekeepers and conflict managers. And he urges an end to corruption.
Bearing in mind that this past week saw the first conviction of
a UN oil-for-food crook in what is the largest fraud case in world history,
I think we can conclude that old Sen. Helms' memoir makes for timely
reading. Pre-order now on Amazon.
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