FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2006, file photo, President Bush, right, greets veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas during the final briefing in the press briefing room in the West Wing of the White House in Washington before its renovation. Thomas, a pioneer for women in journalism and an irrepressible White House correspondent, has died Saturday, July 20, 2013. Here are five things to know about Helen Thomas, the groundbreaking White House correspondent, who died Saturday at age 92: Her journalism career started in 1943, an era when female reporters were confined to stories about presidents' kids, wives, their teas and their hairdos. She was sent by UPI to cover the vacation of President-elect John Kennedy and his family. As United Press International's White House bureau chief, she became the first woman in that role for a wire service. It was Pat Nixon who announced Thomas was engaged to Douglas Cornell, chief White House correspondent for the archrival Associated Press. They married in 1971. "Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine," she told a rabbi who was interviewing her. It's not Germany, it's not Poland. She soon retired from her job as a Hearst columnist.