On a unusually chilly and windy morning, I walked across the empty streets in Washington and went into the Starbucks at 17 Streets and Pennsylvania Avenue. I was there for an interview with Helen Thomas.
"The First Lady of the Press," Helen Thomas, 87, is the former White House Bureau Chief of United Press International and now Hearst Newspapers columnist. She began her White House correspondent career in 1961 and has covered every president since Kennedy.
I met Helen at the White House press briefing and witnessed she firing questions to the spokesperson from the middle of the front row, exactly as she described in biography "Front Row at the White House".
She said we could meet at 7 o'clock at the Starbucks where she stayed for the White House press briefing every morning.
It was 6:35. I found Helen reading Washington Post. Another paper, The New York Times, lied on the table with a big cup of coffee.
We talked about Bush and Tony Snow, the press secretary. She talked about her favorite president, the "Watergate", Iraq, and her trips to China.
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