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When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.

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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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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 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'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work.
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Life is too short to drink the house wine.
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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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If we lose our title of land of the free, what have we got?
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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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We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.
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The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is another liar... I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does.
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We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.
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But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.
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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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I think Obama is handling his image very well, but I think he lacks boldness.
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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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Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.
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Maybe the Jefferson case will give members of Congress second thoughts the next time they get ready to legislate away the rights of ordinary Americans.
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Every President hates the Press.
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Get the hell out of Palestine.
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I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.
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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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