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Helen Thomas
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Helen Thomas was born August 4, 1920, is a noted news service reporter, a Hearst Newspapers columnist, and member of the White House Press Corps. She served for fifty-seven years as a correspondent and White House bureau chief for United Press International. Thomas has covered every president since John F. Kennedy, was the first woman officer of the National Press Club, was the first woman member and president of the White House Correspondents Association, and the first woman member of the Gridiron Club. She has written four books, including her latest, Watchdogs of Democracy?: The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public.
Thomas was born in Winchester, Kentucky to Lebanese immigrants. She was raised in Detroit, Michigan and attended Wayne University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1942. Thomas' first job in journalism was as a copygirl for the now-defunct Washington Daily News, but shortly after she was promoted to cub reporter she was fired as part of massive cutbacks at the paper.
After joining UPI in 1943, Thomas wrote news on women's topics for their radio wire service. Later in the decade she wrote their "Names in the News" column, and after 1955 she covered federal agencies such as the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Thomas served as president of the Women's National Press Club 1959–60.
In November, 1960, Helen began covering then President-elect John F. Kennedy, following him to the White House in January 1961 as a UPI correspondent. During this assignment, Thomas became known for closing presidential press conferences with the tag line "Thank you, Mr. President."
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Artist Biography - Helen Thomas
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 She later became White House Bureau Chief for UPI, where she was employed until her resignation on May 17, 2000. At this time, UPI was acquired by News World Communications, which owns The Washington Times; Thomas has indicated that she resigned because of News World Communications' ties to Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. Thomas then became a White House correspondent and a columnist for King Features Syndicate.
homas has since been moved to the back row during press conferences, although she still sits in the front row during press briefings. She is called upon at briefings on a daily basis but no longer ends Presidential news conferences saying "Thank you, Mr. President." Asked why she is now seated in the back row, she said, "Because they don't like me... I ask too mean questions."
On March 21, 2006, Thomas was called upon directly by President Bush for the first time in three years. Thomas asked Bush about Iraq:
Helen Thomas: "I'd like to ask you, Mr. President, your decision to invade Iraq has caused the deaths of thousands of Americans and Iraqis, wounds of Americans and Iraqis for a lifetime. Every reason given, publicly at least, has turned out not to be true. My question is: Why did you really want to go to war? From the moment you stepped into the White House, from your Cabinet -- your Cabinet officers, intelligence people, and so forth -- what was your real reason? You have said it wasn't oil -- quest for oil, it hasn't been Israel, or anything else. What was it?"
Helen Thomas
Bush responded at first by discussing Afghanistan, the Taliban and Al Qaeda. [2] Thomas was criticized by conservative commentators for her exchange with Bush. [3]
* In November 1976, Thomas was named one of the "25 Most Influential Women in America" by the World Almanac.
* In 1986, Thomas was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame.
* In 1998, she received the International Women's Media Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award
* Also in 1998, she was the first recipient of a prize established in her name by the White House Correspondents Association - the Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award
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