Chronicle Podcasts: Helen Thomas' Washington topic

Helen Thomas has covered the White House for United Press International since the Kennedy administration and has been a reporter for more than 50 years. Her front row seat in the White House briefing room has made her the president's chief interrogator through nine administrations. She was the only print journalist to accompany Richard Nixon when he made his historic trip to China in 1972, and she battled for equal treatment for women in the Washington press corps. Now a syndicated columnist for Hearst Newspapers, she's podcasting her political commentary with co-host Marc Sandalow, The San Francisco Chronicle's Washington, D.C., bureau chief.