Word: sidey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VERY PERSONAL PRESIDENCY by Hugh Sidey. 305 pages. Atheneum...
...this sprightly study of the 36th President of the U.S., Author Hugh Sidey demonstrates that Johnson has been more than just possessive in his conduct of the office-he has been frequently devious, overbearing and suspicious as well. "What are you trying to do to me?" he cried once, when an aide had failed him. "Everybody is trying to cut me down, destroy me." Incongruously, there has also been an almost pathetic yearning for affection. "The most stimulating thing in my kind of work," he once said, "is the feeling that the people care about me." Sidey is TIME...
...cave, no longer subservient. The boar attacked him with his tusks; the bull gored him; even the ass, feeling quite safe, kicked up his heels and brayed. "Ah," sighed the failing King, "thus dies majesty." In the waning months of the Johnson Administration, TIME White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey reported on how the President is coping with the assorted denizens of Washington and the world...
After Dallas, she had the soothing hand, the understanding heart. "There was in those days," TIME Correspondent Hugh Sidey remembers, "a sense of urgency about him, almost as if he were sliding off some horrible precipice toward some faraway disaster. There was an irresistible compulsion to do everything and try everything. That is when he began to shoot rapids and climb mountains." This compulsion, an almost existential need to dare the elements, combined with a lifelong love of physical exertion, prompted him to lead the first ascent of the Yukon's 14,000-ft. Mount Kennedy, named...
...only for the sponsors of impending paeans such as The Case for Lyndon B. Johnson (Coward-McCann) but also for those who had hoped for easy pickings from a crop of anti-Johnsonia. Even a sympathetic study, the forthcoming A Very Personal Presidency by TIME White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey, stands in need of extensive updating. Taking account of the backlash of sentiment for the President, New American Library has already dropped plans for a paperback edition of the cartoon anthology L.B.J. Lampooned, will retitle Larry L. King's My Hero L.B.J. and Other Dirty Stories. Simon and Schuster...