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All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

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Helen Thomas
Age: 92 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 4
Died: 2013
Died: July 20
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Journalist
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Winchester
Kentucky
Helen Amelia Thomas
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I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, I'll be one 'til I die, what else should a reporter be when you see so much and when we have such great privilege and access to the truth?
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We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.
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I'm of Arab background.
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I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die.
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Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won.
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We are owned by propagandists against the Arabs. There's no question about that. Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. No question in my opinion. They put their money where their mouth is...We're being pushed into a wrong direction in every way.
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I love my work, and I think that I was so lucky to pick a profession where it's a joy to go to work every day.
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When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.
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We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.
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I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.
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The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal.
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I think Obama is handling his image very well, but I think he lacks boldness.
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Every President hates the Press.
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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.
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I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza.
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If we lose our title of land of the free, what have we got?
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You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.
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