Helen Thomas and Ellen Brown

Helen Thomas – Author/Former White House Press Corp

Ellen Brown – Author of Web Of Debt, Forbidden Medicine and Nature’s Pharmacy

Host: Basima Farhat

Previously Aired On: Tuesday, December 7, 2010 – Listen to the Show!
 

Helen Thomas:

Helen Thomas was born in Winchester, Kentucky on August 4, 1920. She was reared in Detroit, Michigan where she attended public schools, and later graduated from Wayne State University. The year after college Thomas served as a copy girl on the now defunct Washington Daily News, and joined United Press International in 1943.

For 12 years Thomas had to be at work at 5:30 a.m. to write radio news for U.P.I. She later had several beats around the federal government, including the Department of Justice, F.B.I., Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and Capitol Hill before she began covering President-elect John F. Kennedy in 1960 as a member of the U.P.I. White House team headed by the late Merriman Smith, and was there until May 2000. In July 2000 Thomas became a columnist for the Hearst News Service – where she continues today.

During the years she covered Kennedy, Thomas was the first woman to close a presidential news conference with the traditional “Thank you, Mr. President.”

Thomas served as President of the Women’s National Press Club in 1959 – 60, and she was the first woman officer of the National Press Club after it opened its doors to women members for the first time in 90 years. In addition, Thomas became the first woman officer of the White House Correspondents Association in its 50 years of existence, and served as its first woman president in 1975-76. Thomas also became the first woman member of the Gridiron Club in its history, and the first woman to be elected President in 1993.

In 1968 Thomas was named the “Newspaper Woman of Washington” by the American Newspaper Woman’s Club, and in 1975, she was named the “Woman of the Year” in communications by Ladies Home Journal. She has also received the Matrix Award from the Women in Communications, and the World Almanac named Helen Thomas as one of the twenty-five most influential women in America.

Thomas has received numerous honorary doctorate degrees, some of the most recent from Brown University, St. Bonaventure University, Michigan State University and the George Washington University. In addition, she has been a commencement speaker at dozens of colleges and has delivered lectures on the White House and the Presidency throughout the country.

Helen Thomas traveled around the world several times with Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton, and covered every economic summit. In February, 1972, she was the only newspaperwoman to travel with President Nixon to China during his breakthrough trip. Since then, she has been to China on many subsequent presidential visits.

Thomas continues to ask her pointed questions of President Barack Obama and his press secretary on a daily basis.

In September, 1971, Pat Nixon scooped Helen Thomas by announcing her engagement to the Associated Press’ retiring White House correspondent, Douglas Cornell, at a White House party hosted by the President in honor of Cornell. The late Cornell and Thomas were married on October 16, 1971.

New in 2009, Listen Up, Mr. President. This is her latest adult book and it offers great advice to the president and any great leader.

In addition to Listen Up, Mr. President, Thomas is also the author Dateline: White House, her memoir, Front Row at the White House, Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President, and Watchdogs of Democracy? about how journalism has changed.

In 2008 she released her first children’s book, The Great White House Breakout. This is laugh out loud funny no matter what your age. Written with Pulitzer nominated political cartoonist Chip Bok, The Great White House Breakout is beautifully color illustrated and is sure to become a family favorite.

Ellen Brown:

Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In Web of Debt, her latest book, she turns those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and “the money trust.” She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Brown developed an interest in the developing world and its problems while living abroad for eleven years in Kenya, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. She returned to practicing law when she was asked to join the legal team of a popular Tijuana healer with an innovative cancer therapy, who was targeted by the chemotherapy industry in the 1990s. That experience produced her book Forbidden Medicine, which traces the suppression of natural health treatments to the same corrupting influences that have captured the money system. Brown’s eleven books include the bestselling Nature’s Pharmacy, co-authored with Dr. Lynne Walker, which has sold 285,000 copies.

About “WEB OF DEBT”

This book exposes important, often obscured truths about our money system and our economic past and future. Our money is not what we have been led to believe. The creation of money has been “privatized,” or taken over by a private money cartel. It is all done by sleight of hand, concealed by economic double-speak. “Web of Debt” unravels the deception and presents a crystal clear picture of the financial abyss towards which we are heading, pointing out all the signposts. Then it explores a workable alternative, one that was tested in colonial America and is grounded in the best of American economic thought, including the writings of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. If you care about financial security, your own or the nation’s, you should read this book.

Ellen Brown has applied her training as a litigating attorney, researcher and writer to the monetary field, unearthing facts that even the majority of banking and financial experts ignore: ranging from the privatization of money creation, to the Plunge Protection Team, to the Federal Reserve’s `Helicopter Money.

About “NATURE’S PHARMACY”

The definitive, A to Z guide to combating disease and enjoying optimal health–naturally

This straightforward resource compendium takes the guesswork out of finding safe and reliable natural approaches to healing. It gives readers the knowledge and confidence to battle disease and enjoy great health–drug-and-surgery free.

Packed with timely facts and practical information, NATURE’S PHARMACY cuts to the heart of what works and what doesn’t. Arranged alphabetically by ailment, it covers 200 common conditions, ranging from acne to Lyme Disease to whooping cough. For each disorder, readers will discover the underlying causes, warning signs, and best methods of treatment. The authors compare traditional doctor’s orders with natural alternatives, including herbs, nutritional supplements, and essential oils. Throughout, they highlight the best brands and dosage ranges, as well as potential side effects and dangers. They also offer plenty of targeted tips on diet, exercise, meditation, color therapy, motivational thinking, and other health-boosters.

Backed by extensive research and filled with lively patient histories and testimonials, NATURE’S PHARMACY is a proven guide to getting and staying well–naturally.

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