American - Journalist | August 4, 1920 - July 20, 2013
I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn't get it through.
Helen Thomas
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I got into the Kennedy White House because at the time I was president of the Women's National Press Club, and they assigned me to cover the early days of the Kennedy campaign. Jackie especially. Everyone was interested in the family.
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All of us who covered the Reagans agreed that President Reagan was personable and charming, but I'm not so certain he was nice. It's hard for me to think of anyone as 'nice' when I hear him say 'The homeless are homeless because they want to be homeless.'
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To my mind, a president should care about all people, and he didn't, which is why I will always feel Reagan lacked soul.
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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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