PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS/ASSOCIATED PRESS Retired North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms receives applause after being acknowledged by President George W. Bush during his visit to BTI Center for the Performing Arts in this 2005 file photo. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH, N.C. –Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86. Helms died at 1:15 a.m., said the Jesse Helms Center at Wingate University in North Carolina. The center's president, John Dodd, said in a statement that funeral arrangements were pending. "He was very comfortable," said former chief of staff Jimmy Broughton, who added Helms died of natural causes in Raleigh. Helms, who first...
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