Hosting lectures with the Heritage Foundation and others throughout the state and the country. So why the helms center lecture quick. He was in the senate and in 1984 he was head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the second to do so. He was a top leader in the modern conservative movement and he along with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan were instrumental to win the cold war and defeating communism. A matter of fact Margaret Thatcher wrote jesse helms record is unmatched. Also it was well known as a bipartisan senator and him and joe biden were very Close Friends and to this day the Vice President will talk fondly of his relationship with helms and in the archives we refer to those love letters that biden and helms shared that are open and they are on the website that they are unique. In 2001 when he announced his retirement, mead wrote in the wall street journal opinion section as senator helms prepares to step down, i cannot see how it feels we are looking for something t