Editing Jesse Helms (section)

===Remarks regarding Moseley Braun and Clinton===
In a widely publicized incident on July 22, 1993, [[Carol Moseley Braun]], the first black woman in the Senate and the only black senator at the time, reported that Helms deliberately sought to offend her by whistling the song "[[Dixie (song)|Dixie]]" as the two shared an elevator.<ref name="Helms Whistling Dix">{{cite news |title=Is Jesse Helms Whistling 'Dixie' Over Nomination? |author=Jessica Reaves |newspaper=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=October 27, 1999 |url=https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,33306,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080710072730/http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,33306,00.html |url-status=live|archive-date=July 10, 2008 }}</ref><ref name="fair1">{{cite web |publisher=FAIR |title=End of Racism? |url=http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1346 |date=March 1, 1996}}</ref><ref name="Winston-Salem 5 Jy">{{cite web|title=The End of Racism?: Somebody tell Marge Schott|work=[[Winston-Salem Journal]] |date=July 5, 2008|url=https://fair.org/extra/the-end-of-racism/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20081006183516/http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/jul/05/jesse-helms-oct-18-1921-july-4-2008/|url-status=live|archive-date=October 6, 2008|access-date=July 8, 2008 }}</ref> After Moseley Braun persuaded the Senate to vote against Helms's amendment to extend the patent of the [[United Daughters of the Confederacy]] insignia, which included the [[Confederate flag]], Moseley Braun claims that Helms ran into her in an elevator.<ref name="Helms Whistling Dix" /> Helms allegedly turned to [[Orrin Hatch|Senator Orrin Hatch]] and said, "Watch me make her cry. I'm going to make her cry. I'm going to sing 'Dixie' until she cries."<ref>''Chicago Sun-Times'', August 5, 1993</ref> He then allegedly proceeded to sing the song about "the good life" during [[slavery]] to Moseley Braun.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/07/helms-subtly-ca.html |title=Helms subtly carried torch of white supremacy |work=USA Today |author=Wickham, DeWayne |date=July 8, 2008 |access-date=August 29, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080802025535/http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/07/helms-subtly-ca.html |archive-date=August 2, 2008 }}</ref><ref name="John Nichols 4 Jy">{{cite journal | first = John | last = Nichols | title= Jesse Helms, John McCain and the Mark of the White Hands | journal=The Nation | date=July 5, 2008 | url=https://www.thenation.com/article/jesse-helms-john-mccain-and-mark-white-hands/ | access-date=August 29, 2008}}</ref> In 1999, Helms unsuccessfully attempted to block Moseley Braun's nomination to be [[United States Ambassador to New Zealand]].<ref name="Helms Whistling Dix"/>

In 1994, Helms created a sensation when he told broadcasters [[Rowland Evans]] and [[Robert Novak]] that Clinton was "not up" to the tasks of being commander-in-chief, and suggested two days later, on the anniversary of [[John F. Kennedy]]'s assassination, "Mr. Clinton better watch out if he comes down here. He'd better have a bodyguard." Helms said Clinton was unpopular and that he had not meant it as a threat.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/23/us/helms-takes-new-swipe-at-clinton-then-calls-it-mistake.html |title = Helms Takes New Swipe at Clinton, then Calls It Mistake|newspaper = The New York Times|date = November 23, 1994|last1 = Greenhouse|first1 = Steven}}</ref> Clinton addressed the comments when asked about them by a reporter at a press conference the following day: "I think the remarks were unwise and inappropriate. The President oversees the foreign policy of the United States. And the Republicans will decide in whom they will repose their trust and confidence; that's a decision for them to make, not for me."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PPP-1994-book2/html/PPP-1994-book2-doc-pg2113.htm|title=The President's News Conference With President Kuchma of Ukraine|date=November 22, 1994|first=Bill|last=Clinton|author-link=Bill Clinton|publisher=Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States}}</ref>