The Washington Post needs to correct or clarify a questionable claim in its recent glowing obituary about journalist Helen Thomas.
The obituary stated that Thomas once â??asked President Richard M. Nixon point-blankâ? about â??his secret plan to end the Vietnam War.â?
I have asked the obituaryâ?? author, Patricia Sullivan, when and where Thomas posed such a question, but Sullivan has not offered a direct reply.
As noted in a Media Myth Alert post on Sunday, the nearest reference I could find to Thomasâ?? having raised such a question was at a White House news conference on January 27, 1969. According to a transcript the Post published the following day, Thomas asked:
â??Mr. President, what is your peace plan for Vietnam?â? She did not ask about a secret plan.
The issue here is larger than a likely error in a front-page obituary.
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