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...Hugh Sidey loved ceremony but hated pretension. He had excellent perspective, but also had an eye for the telling detail: Lyndon Johnson's hydra-headed shower, George H.W. Bush's penchant for e-mailing racy jokes to friends, Richard Nixon's love of classical music. He came to Washington in 1957 to cover the second Administration of Dwight Eisenhower for LIFE, switched to TIME to cover J.F.K. and reported on every President since then. He went to Dallas with J.F.K., to China with Nixon, to Moscow's Red Square with Ronald Reagan. Yet he returned as often as he could...
...Hugh died last week while visiting Paris with his wife Anne and daughter Sandy. We offer them and his three other children--Cynthia, Bettina and Edwin--and his seven grandchildren our deepest condolences. Hugh did many things well in journalism, always with modesty and grace, but his most lasting legacy was his ability to see Presidents as people first, vulnerable and human...
...Hugh Sidey was such an important part of our lives over the years. Just a few weeks ago Hugh joined me at Ronnie's Library to dedicate the Air Force One Pavilion. And of course, he was with me when I brought Ronnie home to California for the last time...
...Hugh was first and foremost a storyteller. He had, all through his long career, a great eye for the telling detail and the humorous, often incongruous anecdote that illuminated the humanity of the powerful. I loved watching him regale a group with tales of everything from Lyndon Johnson's hydra-headed shower to the old Yale baseball mitt that the first President Bush kept in his desk in the Oval Office. People-important people, ordinary people-liked to tell Hugh things. He was trustworthy and fair-minded, and they could sense that. For all his time in Washington, Hugh never...
...Aside from Hugh's hobnobbing with presidents, his graciousness, his wit, he holds another distinction in TIME's history-he was the Washington Bureau chief during Watergate. Thanks to Hugh, along with the main reporter, Sandy Smith, and Managing Editor Henry Grunwald, TIME did a sterling job covering Watergate. It was the only publication (according to Woodward and Bernstein's book, All the President's Men) that could keep up with Washington Post on the story. Henry, of course, wrote the famous "Nixon should resign" editorial, and Sandy was the grizzled mafialogist and investigative reporter from the Chicago Tribune...