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She chased nine US-Presidents with her keenness: Helen Thomas was reporting for over half a century as a correspondent from the White House.

Now the disputatious journalist legend died at the age of 92 in Washington.

She was direct to the point of being blunt.

In 2003, Helen Thomas called the former head of the government, George W.

Bush, „the worst president of all times“.

Which is strong stuff if you consider, that the legendary US-journalist regularly faced the one, she harshly criticized like that, on press conferences.

Traditionally the liberalist Thomas was always allowed to ask the first question, when the President himself came up to the journalists.

This made her face known beyond the United States.

For 57 years, Helen Thomas, who grew up as a daughter of Lebanese immigrants in Detroit, was visiting press conferences in the White House for the news agency UPI – mostly she took a seat in the first row.

She was reporting throughout this time about all presidents – from John F.

Kennedy to Barack Obama.