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I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.

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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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Get the hell out of Palestine.
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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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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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I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.
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There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.
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All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.
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I'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work.
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I covered Kennedy when she was three years old and the darling daughter of President Kennedy who doted on her and whose mother did everything to protect her from the prying press.
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Life is too short to drink the house wine.
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I think Obama is handling his image very well, but I think he lacks boldness.
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Everybody is in the pocket of the Israeli lobbies.
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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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I think that presidents deserve to be questioned. Maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring 'em down a size. You see a president, ask a question. You have one chance in the barrel. Don't blow it.
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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 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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Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch.
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I had a lot of fun bantering back and forth with Kennedy. But for ease and comfort, it would be Gerald Ford. He was a down-home type. I came from the Midwest and he came from the Midwest. He was nonaggressive and kindly.
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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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When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.
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You cannot have a democracy without an informed people.
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