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Republican icons helped carry GOP to dominance Phil Gramm of Texas announced his retirement from the Senate a week before Sept. 11, 2001, joining fellow Southern Republican icons Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. The three men symbolized the forces that carried the GOP to dominance in the South. Story: Gramm to bow out of Senate in 2002
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Republican icons helped carry GOP to dominance

Phil Gramm of Texas announced his retirement from the Senate a week before Sept. 11, 2001, joining fellow Southern Republican icons Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. The three men symbolized the forces that carried the GOP to dominance in the South.

Story: Gramm to bow out of Senate in 2002