FILE - In this May 12, 1963, file photo, reporter Helen Thomas asks President John F. Kennedy for copies of his announcement pledging Federal power to preserve order and lives in Birmingham, Ala., during a news conference at the White House in Washington. Thomas, a pioneer for women in journalism and an irrepressible White House correspondent, has died Saturday, July 20, 2013. She was 92. (AP Photo/Bill Allen, File)