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	Helen Thomas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Helen Thomas (born August 4, 1920) is a noted news service reporter, a Hearst Newspapers columnist, and member of the White House Press Corps.
		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.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Helen_Thomas (1418 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
		Thomas is the recipient of more than thirty honorary degrees and the first annual Helen Thomas Award for Lifetime Achievement, established by the White House Correspondents Association.
		Helen Thomas: I certainly faced more discrimination as a woman but I was one of millions of women, not only in my professtion but in law, medicine, you name it.
		Helen Thomas: I think that Marvin Fitzwater was a very good press secretary because he could brush past the palace guard and walk right into the Oval Office when it was necessary to tell the president this is what's happening, what are we going to do about it.
	discuss.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/zforum/02/author_thomas062602.htm (2887 words)

	National Press Club -- Helen Thomas
		Seizing an opportunity, Thomas veered from the “woman’s angle” stories she was expected to file, reported on the news of the day, and never looked back.
		Thomas ended her UPI career in May 2000, resigning after it was sold to News World Communications, a company controlled by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church.
		Thomas was born on August 4, 1920 in Winchester, Kentucky to George Thomas and Mary Thomas.
	www.npr.org /programs/npc/2000/000713.hthomas.html (460 words)

	Helen Thomas -- Speaker Biography, AEI Speakers Bureau
		Born in Winchester, Kentucky, Helen Thomas was raised in Detroit, Michigan where she attended public schools and later graduated from Wayne State University.
		In September, 1971, Pat Nixon scooped Helen by announcing her engagement to Associated Press' retiring White House correspondent, Douglas B. Cornell at a White house party hosted by then President Nixon in honor of Cornell.
		Thomas was the only woman print journalist traveling with then President Nixon to China during his breakthrough trip in January, 1972.
	www.aeispeakers.com /Thomas-Helen.htm (333 words)

	Helen Thomas: GWB Is Worst President in American history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Thomas, in case you've never seen a presidential news conference, is the woman who has haunted every U.S. president since JFK.
		Except when it comes to Thomas, who ÷ to the 100 or so people in that room ÷ is the very essence of celebrity, a woman who dedicated 60 years at United Press International and Hearst to afflicting the elected.
		Thomas believes we have chosen to promote democracy with bombs instead of largess while Congress 'defaults,' Democrats cower and a president controls all three branches of government in the name of corporations and the religious right.
	www.rense.com /general34/worst.htm (718 words)

	Helen Thomas Socks it to the White House
		Helen Thomas, the most senior member of the White House press corps, really socked it to Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer on Monday over the issue of Iraq.
		HELEN THOMAS: At the earlier briefing, Ari, you said that the President deplored the taking of innocent lives.
		FLEISCHER: Helen, I think you know very well that the President's position is that he wants to avert war, and that the President has asked the United Nations to go into Iraq to help with the purpose of averting war.
	www.antiwar.com /comment/helen.html (528 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Helen Thomas defends Rather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Helen Thomas, the so-called "dean of the White House press corps," is not blasting up Dan Rather over his use of unreliable documents about President Bush's military record, but instead is targeting Bush himself.
		The paper says Thomas wasn't alone in her defense of the CBS Evening News anchor, as her comments were echoed by longtime Associated Press reporter Linda Deutsch.
		Thomas – the 84-year-old journalist who admits she asks herself "Who do I hate today?" – told the Press both the president and today's news media have fallen short of peak performance, especially when it comes to the amount of presidential press conferences, less than 20.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40580 (672 words)

	Screw you, Mr. President. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
		Bush ignored Helen Thomas because she is no longer the Helen Thomas of yesteryear, a deadline artist writing news for tens of millions of UPI readers.
		But Thomas' opinion columns are a model of restraint when compared with the snarky speeches she delivers in lieu of asking questions at White House briefings.
		Thomas' talent for speechifying at news conferences dates to her career as a reporter.
	www.slate.com /id/2080034 (2272 words)

	Helen Thomas
		After meeting the poet, Edward Thomas, in 1896, the couple married and Helen taught at Beadles, a progressive co-educational boarding school.
		Lieutenant Thomas began writing war poetry in 1915 but only a couple of these were published before he was killed by an exploding shell at Arras on 9th April, 1917.
		Her daughter, Myfanwy Thomas, claims the books were written as a form of therapy to lift the depression which settled
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /WthomasH.htm (1412 words)

	Veteran Journalist Helen Thomas to Speak at LCC Commencement
		Thomas, 82, is the author of two books, including “Front Row at the White House,” which covers her 40 years on the White House beat.
		Helen Thomas, the first woman to be White House bureau chief for a news wire service, will give the Commencement address at the 2003 University of Kentucky Lexington Community College graduation ceremony at 7 p.m.
		Until her resignation in May 2000, Thomas, who was born in Winchester, Ky., had served as White House Bureau Chief for United Press International since the Kennedy administration.
	www.uky.edu /PR/News/Archives/2003/May2003/03-05_lcc_commencement.htm (230 words)

	Helen Thomas \| NewsBusters.org
		The liberalism of White House eternal Helen Thomas isn't exactly a state secret, and she readily owned up to it in a sympathetic profile in the Philadelphia Inquirer yesterday.
		Helen Thomas kept bringing up an imaginary cease-fire, to which Snow finally remarked, "All right, this is hectoring now," and moved on to another questioner.
		Thomas admitted that she "sort of" apologized to President Bush for her condemnation of him as "the worst president ever." However, it didn't take long for Thomas to resume her attacks on the Bush administration, which she slammed for "encouraging all of the horror that's going on" in Iraq.
	newsbusters.org /taxonomy/term/375 (2656 words)

	Expose the Left » Helen Thomas: “I’m opposed to preemptive war” (VIDEO)
		Helen responded and said that the Middle East knows we invaded Iraq and ended her remarks with “I’m opposed to preemptive war”.
		Helen Thomas has hardly had to sit silently; (a) She gets her turn at virtually every press conference.
		Helen Thomas, the crazy old bat of the White House press corps, made a point of showing her butt during a press conference.
	exposetheleft.com /2005/10/13/helenwar (1639 words)

	Helen Thomas - Leading Authorities Speakers Bureau
		For 12 years, Helen Thomas wrote radio news for UPI, her work day beginning at 5:30am.
		It was during this first White House assignment that Helen Thomas began closing presidential press conferences with "Thank you, Mr.
		Helen Thomas was the only woman print journalist traveling with then President Nixon to China during his breakthrough trip in January, 1972.
	www.leadingauthorities.com /3925/Helen_Thomas.htm (395 words)

	KLRU: Texas Monthly Talks > Helen Thomas > Biography
		Helen Thomas is probably best known to political watchers as the long-time White House Correspondent for United Press International, sitting front and center at Presidential press conferences for decades.
		Thomas was born in Kentucky, but spent most of her childhood in Detroit, where she began her journalism career writing for the high school paper.
		Thomas is a popular speaker at events nationwide, and has emerged as a vocal critic of President George W. Bush since leaving UPI.
	www.klru.org /texasmonthlytalks/archives/thomas/bio.asp (352 words)

	freedomforum.org: Helen Thomas quits UPI over sale
		WASHINGTON — Helen Thomas, the grande dame of American journalism and for decades the public persona of the beleaguered wire service United Press International, said today she would leave UPI because of its sale to the news affiliate of the Unification Church.
		Thomas, who will turn 80 on Aug. 4, made her announcement in a brief statement read to reporters by one of her colleagues at the White House.
		Thomas did not address the assertion by Arnaud de Borchgrave, UPI's chief executive officer, after the sale announcement that she would remain with the company.
	www.freedomforum.org /templates/document.asp?documentID=12482 (1395 words)

	Helen Thomas
		Veteran print journalist and strident liberal Helen Thomas has been in the White House press corps ever since the start of the Kennedy administration in 1961.
		Thomas has been reassigned to the back of the room and is rarely called on anymore for questions.
		Thomas asks a pointed question, and White House spokesman Scott McClellan sidesteps it.
	www.nndb.com /people/857/000022791 (235 words)

	Helen Thomas — Infoplease.com
		Thomas was the first woman officer of the National Press Club, the White House Correspondents Association, and the first woman member of the Gridiron Club.
		As her career advanced, Thomas came to be considered the “dean of the Washington press corps,” and she was allowed to ask the first question at presidential press conferences.
		Helen R. Bosley, CFA, and Thomas A. Bracken have been elected to the South Jersey Energy board of directors.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0880200.html (359 words)

	Helen Thomas
		Nearly everyone knows about her pioneering work as a female Washington journalist in the 1950s, and her debut as a national reporter at the White House press conferences when John F. Kennedy was just inaugurated.
		Moon, after his efforts to establish his cult religion in America during the 1970s and 1980s failed spectacularly, decided he was going to take a more secular approach, and help dismantle the secular government of the land in order to improve his odds of gaining a messianic toehold.
		What really drove them nuts was the praise she received from Clinton as she was leaving the White House Press Corp. In the crippled and barren hearts of the right wing, there is no room for the gracious gesture, the token of respect for a job well done.
	www.zeppscommentaries.com /Politics/helen.htm (898 words)

	Lecture: Helen Thomas \| Bullpen
		Thomas, 84, spoke passionately about the newsmedia’s responsibility to the public, especially in relationship to politics.
		Thomas was the first woman officer of the National Press Club and the first woman officer of the White House Correspondents Association.
		Although she punctuated some of her stories with the flash of a smile, many of her anecdotes highlighted the tension between the press corps and the White House, which in Thomas’s experience often seems to view reporters as a nuisance.
	journalism.nyu.edu /pubzone/bullpen/helen_thomas/lecture (505 words)

	Helen Thomas
		Helen Thomas, a Hearst Newspapers columnist, served for fifty-seven years as a correspondent for United Press International and, as White House bureau chief, covered every president since John F. Kennedy.
		She was the first woman officer of the National Press Club after it opened its doors to women members, the first woman member and president of the White House Correspondents Association and the first woman member of the Gridiron Club.
		In 1998 she received the International Women's Media Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award and was honored by President and Mrs.
	www.thenation.com /directory/bios/helen_thomas (148 words)

	Helen Thomas @ Brooks International Speakers Bureau
		Commonly referred to as The First Lady of the Press, White House Bureau Chief Helen Thomas is a trailblazer, breaking through barriers for women reporters while covering every President since John F. Kennedy.
		Born in Winchester, Kentucky, Helen was raised in Detroit, Michigan where she attended public schools and later graduated from Wayne State University.
		Helen was the only woman print journalist traveling with then President Nixon to China during his breakthrough trip in January, 1972.
	www.brooksinternational.com /helen_thomas.htm (358 words)

	Helen Thomas Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Regarded as the dean of the Washington, D.C., press corps, reporter Helen Thomas (born 1920) served as White House bureau chief for United Press International (UPI) from 1974 to 2000.
		To those who regularly watch presidential press conferences, Helen Thomas was a familiar figure.
		Usually dressed in red (a tradition dating back to the administration of Ronald Reagan) and always seated in the front row, she was invariably the first or second reporter the president calls upon.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/helen-thomas (187 words)

	Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Tony Snow vs. Helen Thomas
		Helen Thomas would gladly give you the answer to her question if you’d just shut up and listen.
		He refused to let Helen Thomas define the area of debate using wildely inaccurate terms (like using “wiretapping” when she is talking about a simple phone number).
		Thomas Galvin on May 16, 2006 at 3:12 PM Helen Thomas would make A great reguler on Saturday Night Live, shes A natural.
	hotair.com /archives/2006/05/16/video-tony-snow-vs-helen-thomas (3255 words)

	Crooks and Liars » Helen Thomas
		Then Helen Thomas asked Snow why the US vetoed a ceasefire resolution and Snow said we did nothing of the kind.
		Helen Thomas joined Jon Stewart last night and talked about how the press had abandoned its job during this presidency.
		THOMAS: Why did the president pick a man who is so contemptible of the public servants in Washington to be his domestic adviser, saying, ‘People in Washington are morally repugnant, cheating, shifty human beings.’ Why did he …
	www.crooksandliars.com /posts/category/helen-thomas (607 words)

	Media Reality Check -- 05/17/2000 -- Helen Thomas, Legendary Liberal
		Long-time UPI White House reporter Helen Thomas quit yesterday, a day after the wire service was sold to News World Communications, the owners of the Washington Times, affiliated with the Unification Church.
		Thomas didn’t say she was looking for a new gig because UPI was now owned by conservatives.
		Tom Brokaw declared, "Helen was always fair and never intimidated." But Thomas avoided asking about Juanita Broaddrick’s rape charges in a press briefing the day The Wall Street Journal broke the story on February 19, 1999.
	www.mediaresearch.org /realitycheck/2000/20000517.asp (559 words)

	Helen Thomas, Wings of Justice Honoree
		When Helen Thomas was sent to the back seat of the White House briefing room because she asked "real" questions, you knew that she wasn't willing to play the banter game with Bush administration press secretaries.
		That alone set her apart from the rest of the White House press corps, which was content to get by with briefings that revealed and acknowledged nothing at all.
		Thomas knows the future of our country is hanging in the balance -- and it's her role to point out what's at stake and who is responsible.
	www.wingsofjustice.com /05/10/woj05020.html (299 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Helen Thomas: If Cheney runs, I'll kill myself (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Veteran reporter Helen Thomas, the "dean of the White House press corps," says she would not be able to live if Vice President Cheney were to run for the highest office.
		Thomas, a syndicated columnist for Hearst Newspapers, has covered the White House since the Kennedy administration.
		Thomas told the Hill she thinks Cheney would like to run, "but it would be a sad day for the country if he does."
	worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45493 (300 words)

	Amazon.com: Front Row at the White House : My Life and Times: Books: Helen Thomas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Born in 1920, Helen Thomas was one of United Press International's very few female journalists for years.
		Thomas is always on hand with a jaded eye, a cynical word and a probing question.
		Thomas should have included those moments in history that she was a part of, Nixon's resignation, Clinton intern scandal, Reagan--Iran-Contra, etc. Ms.
	www.amazon.com /Front-Row-White-House-Times/dp/0684868091 (1843 words)

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