Photo of the day From the Stripes archives

June 18, 2006

Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes

Salzburg, Austria, May, 1972: President Nixon, under questioning by UPI's Helen Thomas and other reporters, signals an end to an impromptu press conference on the grounds of Klessheim Palace, where he was resting on his way to summit talks in Moscow. Thomas was the only female print journalist accompanying Nixon on his trip to China three months earlier.