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* The longest EVA as of 2007, was 8 hours and 56 minutes, performed by Susan J. Helms and James S. Voss on March 11, 2001.
* The Notre Dame Men's Basketball team was crowned National Champions of the 1926-1927 basketball season as well as the 1935-1936 basketball season by the Helms Athletic Foundation.
Many believe Kissinger's statement to be false and evidence points towards CIA director Richard Helms following orders directly from President Nixon to do whatever was necessary in order “ to get rid of him ”, referring to Allende.
Rose, with a 412 – 373 record, was replaced as Reds manager by Tommy Helms.
In the 2010 elections, Roam chose not to run and was replaced by Republican Sue Rapone, who defeated the Democratic nominee, Ted Helms.
The program was then authorized by JCS Chairman John Vessey, and sanctioned by the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence ( SSCI ), with the sponsorship of Senator Jesse Helms ( R-NC ) and Senator Goldwater ( R-AZ ).
However, that status was suspended in 1994 after a campaign led by Jesse Helms focussing on NAMBLA's membership of ILGA.
* Dr. Pete Beauparlant-Actual Doctor who was also the stunt double for Stew ( Ed Helms ) in The Hangover
* The Iron Mountain Baby, William Moses Gould Helms, subject of folksong, was discovered where the railroad trestle crosses Big River in August, 1902.
Helms was a prominent ( and often controversial ) national leader of the Religious Right wing of the Republican Party, and played a key role in helping Ronald Reagan become President of the United States.
At 5 feet 8 inches tall Hennon was noted for his prolific scoring ability and is a member of the Helms Athletic Foundation Basketball Hall of Fame.
He was named to the Helms Foundation Basketball Hall of Fame in 1970 and inducted into the Lawrence County Hall of Fame in 1984
Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr. ( October 18, 1921 – July 4, 2008 ) was a five-term Republican United States Senator from North Carolina who served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1995 to 2001.
A journalist by training, Helms was the longest-serving popularly-elected Senator in North Carolina's history, and was widely credited with shifting the one-party state dominated by the Democrats into a competitive two-party state.
Helms was credited even by his most vociferous opponents with providing excellent constituent services through his Senate office.
On social issues, Helms was a traditionalist.
Helms was born in Monroe, North Carolina, where his father, nicknamed " Big Jesse ", served as both fire chief and chief of police ; his mother, Ethel Mae Helms, was a homemaker.
Helms was of English ancestry on both sides.
When Smith died in 1953, Helms returned to Raleigh and, from 1953 to 1960, was executive director of the North Carolina Bankers Association.
Richard McGarrah Helms ( March 30, 1913 – October 22, 2002 ) was the Director of Central Intelligence ( DCI ), June 1966 to February 1973.

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Because most MKUltra records were deliberately destroyed in 1973 by order of then CIA director Richard Helms, it has been difficult, if not impossible, for investigators to gain a complete understanding of the more than 150 individually funded research sub-projects sponsored by MKUltra and related CIA programs.
According to former CIA Director Richard M. Helms: " The code names for most Agency operations are picked in sequence from a sterile list, with care taken not to use any word that might give a clue to the activity it covers.
He spent most of his time locked in his room listening to records, often with Zappa, into the early hours in the morning, eating leftover food from his father's Helms bread truck and demanding that his mother bring him a Pepsi.
The Helms-controlled National Congressional Club's state-of-the-art direct mail operation raised millions for Helms and other conservative candidates allowing Helms to outspend his opponents in most of his campaigns.
He brought together Bob McNett ( guitar ), Hillous Butrum ( bass ), Jerry Rivers ( fiddle ) and Don Helms ( steel guitar ) to form the most famous version of the Drifting Cowboys, earning an estimated US $ 1, 000 per show ( equivalent to US $ in ).
Hagan also dominated most of the eastern portion of the state, which had been the backbone of Helms ' past Senate victories.
The 1990 re-election campaign of Jesse Helms attacked his opponent's alleged support of " racial quotas ," most notably through an ad in which a white person's hands are seen crumpling a letter indicating that he was denied a job because of the color of his skin.
While Galifianakis led his Republican challenger, former television commentator Jesse Helms, by a substantial margin for most of the campaign, Helms closed the gap by tying Galifianakis to his party's presidential nominee, George McGovern, and with the late-campaign slogan, " Jesse Helms: He's One of Us ," a reference to the Greek heritage of his opponent.
Helms spent most of his later years living just outside of Martinsville, Indiana until his death from emphysema and asthma at the age of 63 in 1997 .< ref >
1984 saw him involved in three pitched battles for the Senate, the most heralded being the challenge of Democratic Governor Jim Hunt to Helms in North Carolina.
Helms won with 52 %, in what was then the most expensive Senate race in history.
What has happened is that the L & C purchased their first non endcab units, two EMD GP38-2s that were originally leased from Helms Leasing after spending most of their career on Conrail.

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Helms ' first interest in politics came from conversations with his conservative father-in-law.
Maupin says he was a typical conservative and even a segregationist at this time and admired Helms, a family friend, as a " hero figure.
He once joked that he wanted to be known as the conservative senator from North Carolina ; in comparison to the state's other seat held by the very conservative Helms.
Dole's voting record was somewhat more conservative than that of her husband, though slightly less conservative than that of Helms.
Other prominent conservative national and state politicians who were members refused to denounce, distance, or resign their membership, and continued attending meetings and giving speeches remained prominent political leaders within the conservative movement including former Senator Jesse Helms.
In fact, because his politically conservative commentaries became so popular, WRAL pushed up the starting time of the ABC evening network newscasts ( or, for a time in the late 1960s, NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report ) to give Helms a ten-minute nightly program to himself.
A paraplegic since 1955, because of polio, East was a professor of political science at East Carolina University in Greenville and a protégé of conservative Senator Jesse Helms.
Although Democrats have a large advantage in registered voters, the 3rd has always had a very strong social conservative tint ; Jesse Helms in particular had a large base of support here.
He was good friends with conservative Sen. Jesse Helms and liberal Sen. Ted Kennedy.
Early in her career, Glover spent time working for Bill Kristol, Vice President Dan Quayle, former Senator and Energy Secretary Spence Abraham, conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, and former Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved his nomination with only Republican and conservative Senators Jesse Helms and John Ashcroft opposed.
He also wasn't helped by several conservative Democrats defecting to Helms.
After the election, Finkelstein worked with Helms political aides Tom Ellis and Carter Wrenn to establish a permanent conservative organization, the National Congressional Club, which lasted until 1995.
He also served on editorial board of the several institutions, including the Heritage Foundation, the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and the American Security Council, and that a number of conservative politicians wrote articles for Pearson ’ s Journal on American Affairs and related Monographs, including Senators Jake Garn ( R-UT ), Carl T. Curtis ( R-NE ), Jesse Helms ( R-NC ), and Representatives Jack Kemp ( R-NY ), and Philip Crane ( R-UT ).

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