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President Barack Obama presents cupcakes with a candle to Hearst White House columnist Helen Thomas in honor of her birthday in the James Brady Briefing Room, on Aug. 4, 2009. In 2010, Obama would go on to call Thomas’s retirement following her anti-Semitic comments on the White House lawn “the right decision.”