Saturday, June 12, 2010

Helen Thomas

Helen Thomas (born August 4, 1920) is an American author and a former news service reporter, Hearst Newspapers columnist,[1] and member of the White House Press Corps. She served for 57 years as a correspondent and, later as, White House bureau chief for United Press International (UPI). Thomas covered every president of the United States since the later years of the Eisenhower administration, coming to the forefront with John F. Kennedy, and serving until the second year of the Obama administration. She was the first female officer of the National Press Club, the first female member and president of the White House Correspondents' Association, and, in 1975, the first female member of the Gridiron Club. She has written five books; her latest with co-author Craig Crawford is Listen Up, Mr. President: Everything You Always Wanted Your President to Know and Do.

Thomas retired on June 7, 2010, following reaction to comments she had made about Israel

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