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Helen Amelia Thomaswas an American reporter and author, and a long-serving member of the White House press corps. She covered the White House during the administrations of ten U.S. presidents–from the beginning of the Kennedy administration to the second year of the Obama administration.
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Helen Amelia Thomaswas an American reporter and author, and a long-serving member of the White House press corps. She covered the White House during the administrations of ten U.S. presidents–from the beginning of the Kennedy administration to the second year of the Obama administration.
Thomas worked for the United Press and post-1958 successor United Press Internationalfor 57 years, first as a correspondent, and later as White House bureau manager. She then served as a columnist for Hearst Newspapers from 2000 to 2010, writing on national affairs and the White House. Thomas was the first female officer of the National Press Club, the first female member and president of the White House Correspondents’ Association and the first female member of the Gridiron Club. She wrote six books; her lastwas Listen Up, Mr. President: Everything You Always Wanted Your President to Know and Do (2009).
Thomas retired from Hearst Newspapers on June 7, 2010, following controversial remarks she made about Israel in an impromptu, unstructured amateur short interview when solicited for “any comments on Israel,” she replied, “tell them to get the hell out of Palestine,” leading to accusations of antisemitism. She then served as an opinion columnist for the Falls Church News-Press until February 2012.
19 Quotes by Helen Thomas
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It’s time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.
Helen ThomasAmerican author and journalist
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I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.
Helen ThomasAmerican author and journalist
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When you’re in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.
Helen ThomasAmerican author and journalist
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This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.
Helen ThomasAmerican author and journalist
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If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.
Helen ThomasAmerican author and journalist
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The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that’s what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.
Helen ThomasAmerican author and journalist
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Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.
Helen ThomasAmerican author and journalist
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I’m covering the worst president in American history.
Helen ThomasAmerican author and journalist
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But when will our leaders learn – war is not the answer.
Helen ThomasAmerican author and journalist
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Every President hates the Press.
Helen ThomasAmerican author and journalist
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We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.
Helen ThomasAmerican author and journalist
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We got the vote, which we should’ve been born with, in 1920. Everything we’ve had to struggle for – it’s ridiculous.
Helen ThomasAmerican author and journalist
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I don’t think a tough question is disrespectful.
Helen ThomasAmerican author and journalist
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We won’t really know what will happen until it happens.
Helen ThomasAmerican author and journalist
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All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.
Helen ThomasAmerican author and journalist
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You don’t spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.
Helen ThomasAmerican author and journalist
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I think I’ll work all my life. When you’re having fun, why stop having fun?
Helen ThomasAmerican author and journalist
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There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred – by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.
Helen ThomasAmerican author and journalist
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The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I’ll kill myself. All we need is another liar… I think he’d like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does.
Helen ThomasAmerican author and journalist