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If we lose our title of land of the free, what have we got?

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Helen Thomas
Age: 92 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 4
Died: 2013
Died: July 20
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Winchester
Kentucky
Helen Amelia Thomas
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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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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.
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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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Get the hell out of Palestine.
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All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.
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You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.
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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 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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I'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work.
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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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