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Cupcakes for reporter on Obama's birthday
AFP - Wednesday, August 5
WASHINGTON (AFP) - - On his own 48th birthday, US President Barack Obama Tuesday turned the spotlight on a reporter also celebrating her special day, who pitched up at the White House in the year he was born.
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Obama sang "Happy Birthday" and presented Helen Thomas, the doyenne of the White House press corps, with cupcakes and a single candle to celebrate her 89th birthday, before planting a kiss on her cheek.
The outspoken Thomas, who has covered every president since John F. Kennedy, spoke quietly to Obama, who ignored reporters' shouted questions about his own birthday and ex-president Bill Clinton's mercy mission to North Korea.
"Helen wished for world peace, (and) no prejudice, but she and I also had a common birthday wish," Obama said.
"She said she wishes for a healthcare reform bill," Obama said, referring to his signature domestic reform legislation, working its tortuous way through Congress.
Thomas, a former UPI wire service reporter who now works for Hearst Newspapers, has a place of honor in the front row of the White House briefing room, and first worked the White House beat in 1961.
Obama celebrated his own birthday by largely avoiding reporters, and holding a lunchtime meeting with a 57 of the 60 Democratic senators and independents who largely control the fact of his domestic agenda in Congress.
Missing were senators Edward Kennedy, Robert Byrd and Barbara Mikulski for health reason.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said that Obama celebrated his birthday at the weekend with a trip to the Camp David presidential retreat surrounded by family and friends.
The president indulged his passion for basketball, and even had a game of tenpin bowling -- scoring a 144 -- a much better showing than his widely ridiculed attempt to bowl during an embarrassing 2008 campaign photo-op.
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