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.
Helen ThomasI 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.
Helen ThomasWe got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.
Helen ThomasTruman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won.
Helen Thomas