Word: sidey
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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 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...
...Sidey's Writing in TIME
...Below are some selected Sidey columns about some of the presidents he covered. You can read more of his articles here...
...Hugh Sidey I knew at TIME was endlessly genial. He'd come by the Washington bureau long after his "retirement," always dapper in coat and tie, to see "what's happening." "How are we doing?" he'd ask, actually wanting to know about those of us still in the trenches and to get caught up on the latest gossip. He'd always have plenty of it himself, often providing delicious tidbits that had eluded those of us covering the Oval Office. When I had questions about the Bush White House, I'd often run them by Hugh...