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Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President : Wit and Wisdom from the Front Row at the White House |
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Helen Thomas, until her resignation in May 2000, had served as White House bureau chief for United Press International since the Kennedy administration. Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President is a chronological collection of observations and anecdotes gleaned from four decades of work. The short tales and one- and two-liners are meant to be humorous, or at least lighthearted. Occasionally they are. The book is thick with repetitions of the familiar (George W. Bush's malapropisms and Kennedy's quip, after receiving honors from Yale University, about having the best of two worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree.) or variations on tired jokes ("I'm no lady, I'm a reporter.") All too often, the inclusions are downright not funny: Jacqueline Kennedy, Thomas says, once chided an annoying U.S. Navy aide to "shape up or ship out." In the end, this is an unedifying and meager compilation. --H. O'Billovich
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