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TIL that up until 1962, women were not allowed to attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner. At the urging of Helen Thomas, John F. Kennedy refused to attend until the ban was lifted. Helen Thomas was named president of the White house Correspondents' Association thirteen years later.

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