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An Unlikely Pair

In his later years in the Senate, Helms proved that he was wasn't entirely inflexible. He worked with Democrats to restructure the foreign policy bureaucracy and pay back debts to the United Nations, an organization he disdained for most of his career. After years of clashes with gay activists, he softened his views on AIDS and advocated greater federal funding to fight the disease in Africa and elsewhere overseas, and in doing so, struck up an enduring and unlikely friendship with U2 frontman Bono.

Full post as published by Expressio Unius on July 07, 2008 (boomark / email).