[inaudible conversations] welcome. I serve as president of the Jesse Helms Center. Located in North Carolina just outside of charlotte, we are a 501 c 3 nonprofit that houses youth programming as well as hosting lectures with the Heritage Foundation and others throughout the state and the country. So why the homes centered like . Sure jesse helms and served in the senate for 30 years. In 1994, he became chair of the Senate Finance committee, becoming the second North Carolina to do so. He was a leader, a top leader of the movement and he, along with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan were instrumental in winning the cold war and defeating communism. Matteroffact, Margaret Thatcher wrote, jesse helms record as a Freedom Fighter is unmatched. He was also wellknown as a bipartisan center. He and joe biden were Close Friends and to this day, Vice President biden still talks fondly of his relationship with helms. And we refer to in the archives as love letters that joe biden and helms shar
[inaudible conversations] welcome. I serve as president of the Jesse Helms Center. Located in North Carolina just outside of charlotte, we are a 501 c 3 nonprofit that houses youth programming as well as hosting lectures with the Heritage Foundation and others throughout the state and the country. So why the homes centered like . Sure jesse helms and served in the senate for 30 years. In 1994, he became chair of the Senate Finance committee, becoming the second North Carolina to do so. He was a leader, a top leader of the movement and he, along with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan were instrumental in winning the cold war and defeating communism. Matteroffact, Margaret Thatcher wrote, jesse helms record as a Freedom Fighter is unmatched. He was also wellknown as a bipartisan center. He and joe biden were Close Friends and to this day, Vice President biden still talks fondly of his relationship with helms. And we refer to in the archives as love letters that joe biden and helms shar
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