The seats provide excellent sight lines to the press secretary’s lectern. So why do these news organizations want—or need—the old Thomas ... not blow up the White House briefing room?

The White House briefing welcomed the return of ... in August after suffering a colon infection. Helen Thomas has been White House press since January 1961 when she began covering President ...

Brady Briefing Room at the White House. After columnist Helen Thomas retired ... Ultimately, the WHCA decided to affix an Associated Press placard to it. Fox News will move to the front row ...

Helen Thomas had been under fire for comments ... and fellow columnists had called for her suspension from the White House press briefings, where she has her own front-row, center seat.

Helen Thomas questions President Ronald Reagan during a press conference at the White ... with her name inscribed on a chair in the White House briefing room — her own front row seat to history.