Fed Event: Press Corps' Helen Thomas at UMD, Tues., 5/4

COVERING PRESIDENTS, A CONVERSATION WITH HELEN THOMAS
Hosted by Public Policy Professor DOUG BESHAROV
Tuesday, May 4th from 4:30–6:00 p.m. in the Colony Ballroom at the Stamp Student Union

Veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas has covered the administrations of ten presidents in a career spanning over sixty years. From 1943 to 2000, she was a reporter and later a member of the White House press corps for United Press International, where she earned the title “dean of the White House press corps.” She is currently a columnist for the Hearst News Service. She is known for her pointed questions to presidents and press secretaries of both parties, as well as her famous press conference closing line, “Thank you, Mr. President.” Thomas was the first woman officer of the National Press Club after it opened its doors to women members for the first time in ninety years. The World Almanac named Thomas as one of the twenty-five most influential women in America. She is the author of Listen Up, Mr. President: Everything You Always Wanted Your President to Know and Do (2009), Watchdogs of Democracy? The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public (2007), and Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times (2000).

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Light refreshments to follow the program.
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For more information about this event, contact Patrick Tiedemann
at (301)405-4767 or ptiedem1@umd.edu.