Word: sidey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...field with Premier Ky and was having breakfast with him the next morning, a few hours after the Honolulu conference was announced. With five other U.S. correspondents, McCulloch flew to Hawaii with the Premier, who lost $8 at poker during the 13-hour flight. TIME White House Reporter Hugh Sidey and State Department Correspondent Jess Cook arrived from Washington with President Johnson. After covering the conference, McCulloch and Cook were awakened by a dawn phone call informing them that the editors had decided on the Ky cover. The two correspondents interviewed and wrote during the entire trip back to Saigon...
...having shown himself an innovator, Johnson has nevertheless proved himself a competent president, Sidey said. He mentioned his "immense energy," his "unbelievable style," and his optimism...
After stating that Johnson is essentially "domestically oriented," Sidey outlined Johnson's view of the International situation. The survey was brief and general...
With regard to Vietnam, Sidey quoted Johnson as having said, "I'm not going to have American boys fight Asian wars... Why should we fight, when one man can walk into Saigon and depose the government?" Sidey attributed the President's reluctance to extend the Asian war in part to his awe of Red China...
...benign monster loose in the land," Sidey said. Nothing is impossible--even a world with hookworm cured, no heart attacks, and an average income of $15,000 a year. What has been called "the improbable world of Lyndon Johnson," Sidney sees as "a simple but noble hope...