Honorable Jesse Helms
United States Senator, North Carolina, Republican
Senator Helms was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972.He was Executive Director of the North Carolina Bankers Associationfrom 1953 to 1960, a member of the Raleigh City Council from 1957to 1961, and Executive Vice President of WRAL-TV and Tobacco RadioNetwork from 1960 to 1972. He is Chairman of the Foreign RelationsCommittee and also serves on the Agriculture, Nutrition and ForestryCommittee and the Rules and Administration Committee. The followingstatement is from the Senate floor debate of March 17, 1998, onProtocols to the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949 on Accession ofPoland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.Half of the twentieth century…
