Helen Thomas Wanted to Be Rumored as ‘JFK’s Lover’

Helen Thomas ‘Miffed’ at Doonesbury, Wanted to Be Rumored as ‘JFK’s Lover’
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Helen Thomas, the Hearst columnist and long-time scourge of Republican presidents as UPI White House correspondent, was “miffed” at Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau because he joked that the rumors were that she was Harry Truman’s lover:

“I wish he’d said I was Jack Kennedy’s lover,” said Thomas, who began covering the White House when President Kennedy took office in January, 1961.

Thomas, who will celebrate her 87th birthday next month, left UPI in 2000 and now writes a syndicated column for Hearst Newspapers.

Describing the Bush administration, Thomas said it’s “running on empty and heading for collapse.” She added that the “invasion and occupation of Iraq — which didn’t attack us — was illegal, immoral, and unconscionable. George W. Bush struck a match inflaming the whole Mideast, and no one has laid a glove on bin Laden.”

Thomas also blasted secret overseas prison sites and Guantanamo, noting: “Detainees have been denied the right to appeal — a right that only goes back to the Magna Carta.” One result? “The U.S. is now the most despised nation in the world,” she said.

Wild Thing’s comment………
JFK thinking…….”Decisions, decisions. Sex with Helen Thomas or Marilyn Monroe”