At the White House, President Clinton makes a statement as First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton looks on (December 19, 1998). Clinton thanked democratic members of the House of Representatives who voted against impeachment and vowed to complete his term. Photo courtesy of AP Photo/Susan Walsh.
President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the border village of Panmunjom in Demilitarized Zone, South Korea (June 30, 2019). Photo courtesy of AP Photo/Susan Walsh.
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help from,” she says. When she took the photography class and got an A, she thought, “Oh, this will boost the GPA.” After another photography class, she called her parents to tell them that she was going to be a photographer, not an aerospace engineer. Building on opportunities, Walsh first interned with the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Massachusetts, before getting a staff job at the Springf ield Union News in New Hampshire. She freelanced for the Associated Press (AP) in its Boston office before joining full time in 1991. “At age 24, it was a pretty big deal. I was one of the younger staffers,” she says. Assignments took her to sporting events, including marathons and Red Sox and New England Patriots games. In 1997, the AP sent her to Washington, DC, to cover the inauguration and photograph then-president Bill Clinton. A staff position was available there,
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan (June 28, 2019). Photo courtesy of AP Photo/Susan Walsh.
