Word: sidey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Khrushchev deposed, De Gaulle whipped in South America, and Wilson leader of a "little bitty majority," Lyndon Johnson is "King," said Hugh Sidey last night in the Leverett House old Library...
...emphasis in his discussion of "LBJ and U.S. Foreign Policy" was on the importance of the Presidential personality. Washington correspondent for Time magazine since 1953, Sidey is the author of John F. Kennedy, President. He was sponsored by the Harvard International Relations Council...
...brother, famed Artist Andrew Wyeth, was our Christmas cover in 1963. The Hurds, who usually paint in separate studios on their ranch at San Patricio, N. Mex., saw the President at the White House, along with Washington Bureau Chief John L. Steele and White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey. For 2½ hours, while the President and Steele and Sidey talked about the issues of the world, the Hurds sketched and made notes. Henriette worked on drawing paper, Peter on the back of White House stationery...
...good account of what McGeorge Bundy said to Dean Rusk at the time of the Cuban crisis. But one misses the master hand, combing through the yards of incident and anecdote to separate the significant from the pointless; it is not a book that is terribly useful now. And Sidey's last chapter is far below the level of the earlier ones; the book closes: "He used to gaze beyond the waves from his boat and would stare from a plane window towards infinity. Now he is there...
...Sidey is not purposefully undertaking a re-evaluation of Kennedy. Some later essayists did, foremost among them Tom Wicker, whose "Kennedy Without Tears" first appeared in Esquire this summer and is now a book. Wicker attacks the basis of the Kennedy legend at some length, and tries to set up a different Kennedy: a man who was not forever moving forward, but a skeptic, full of humor at his own foibles and others...