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I can remember the morning after President Nixon won re-election in 1972. His chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, called a Cabinet meeting and told the members: 'You are all a bunch of burned-out volcanoes' and asked for their resignations.
Helen Thomas
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Helen Thomas
Age: 92 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 4
Died: 2013
Died: July 20
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We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.
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