More recently, she cooperated with Stephen Colbert in the video he presented at the White House Corre- spondents' Dinner.
Upon receiving the Torchbearer award in 2003, she gave a speech entitled "Truth, Fear, and War" about the fall of America as a prestigious nation under the Bush administration. Her first major job in her field was at the Department of Justice in 1955, but she started covering the beat for which she is most fa- mous after accompanying JFK on a vacation shortly after his election. She left United Press International in 2000 after a change in ownership, and was the only print reporter to go to China with Richard Nixon. More recently, she cooperated with Stephen Colbert in the video he presented at the White House Corre- spondents' Dinner. Identify this journalist, who until recent years asked the first question at every press conference and ended them with "Thank you, Mr. President."
Upon receiving the Torchbearer award in 2003, she gave a speech entitled "Truth, Fear, and War" about the fall of America as a prestigious nation under the Bush administration.
Helen Thomas