Robert Gibbs(IV)

Served as the White House Press Secretary from January 20, 2009 to January 2011.

[on reporter Helen Thomas] I was the last White House press secretary Helen interrogated. Reporters I talked to say her friends were like family to her, that she acted as both a mentor and a mother to others who covered the President. Throughout her pioneering career she never lost a sense of who she was, remaining the same humble, down-to-earth working reporter every day she went to the White House.