| inbluevt | Date: Sunday, 2013/07/21, 8:59 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Helen Thomas, the irrepressible White House correspondent who used her seat in the front row of history to grillnine presidents — often to their discomfort and was not shy about sharing her opinions, died Saturday. She was 92.
Thomas, who died at her apartment in Washington, had been ill for a long time, and in and out of the hospital before coming home Thursday, according to a friend, Muriel Dobbin.
Thomas made her name as a bulldog for United Press International in the great wire-service rivalries of old, and as a pioneer for women in journalism.
She was persistent to the point of badgering. One White House press secretary described her questioning as “torture” — and he was one of her fans.
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