Saturday, July 20, 2013

Reporter,Helen Thomas Dead



From UPI: Helen Thomas, who doggedly pursued accountability from 10 U.S. presidents as United Press International White House correspondent, died Saturday. She was 92....
Thomas was born Aug. 4, 1920, in Kentucky. She was one of six children of Lebanese immigrants and was raised in Detroit. She moved to Washington to take an entry-level job with the Washington Daily News. She joined United Press during World War II and joined UPI's White House bureau after John F. Kennedy was inaugurated in 1961.
She was the UPI White House bureau chief from 1974 until she left the wire service in 2000. She spent another 10 years as a columnist for Hearst Newspapers.
Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/07/20/Longtime-UPI-White-House-reporter-Helen-Thomas-dead-at-92/UPI-39561374332320/#ixzz2Zcz5IZLK
I suppose the adage is tat if you can't say anything nice about a person, don't say anything at all. Sooooo....

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