WP: Time Magazine Reporter Hugh Sidey Dies at 78

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Time Magazine Reporter Hugh Sidey
By Martin Weil
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 22, 2005; Page B05


Hugh Sidey, 78, the Time magazine journalist who covered the White House for decades and knew presidents and the presidency in a way that few others could match, died yesterday in Paris.

His brother, Ed Sidey, reported the death to the Associated Press. He was told that Mr. Sidey had a heart attack, the wire service said.

Mr. Sidey covered the nation's chief executives from Dwight D. Eisenhower through Bill Clinton, traveled with them, saw them in times of triumph and in moments of disappointment and was witness to and chronicler of the history they made.

Sidey, who was a contributing editor at the time of his death, "proved you can write about people in power and still be the gentleman journalist," James Carney, Time's Washington bureau chief, told the Associated Press. "He's in some ways the model we all aspire to."...Mr. Sidey wrote three books on individual presidents: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Gerald R. Ford.

He was known for the column "The Presidency," which he wrote for Time, the weekly newsmagazine that he joined in 1958 as White House correspondent....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/21/AR2005112101478.html

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1. He was always known as Poppy Bush's cleanup man in the press.

Hugh Sidey always spun Poppy Bush into being above all the crimes being committed at his direction.

I am sorry for those who loved him personally, but journalism has suffered no loss here. In fact, I mourn the loss of integrity in journalism BECAUSE of people like Hugh Sidey, Bob Woodward and Judy Miller.

[grasswire]

2. yep, it's true

A FIXER for the Bushes. It should be on his tombstone.

[blm]

4. Glad to see someone else who was on to Sidey - he was always pushed

as some sort of dean of journalism, but he always sounded like a Bush shill to me.

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3. I remember Sydey on Larry King's show trashing Clinton......

regarding Clinton's executive orders at the end of Clinton's second term. Sydey claimed there were so many! An examination of facts showed that Bush(ver 1.0) had issued more executive orders at the end of his term, but Sydey wouldn't have cared if he had known the truth. He was engaged in the favorite task of the beltway whores: bashing Clinton.

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5. wait!! There's a Sidey link to Plame case!

Geez. Was he suicided?

http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2005/07/06&ID=Ar00701&Mode=HTML

<i>Among the letters submitted by Mr. Cooper was one from a former Time White House correspondent, Hugh Sidey. “In this case it seems to me the protection of a source transcends the other considerations,which do not seem to threaten national security,” he wrote.

Mr. Sidey said in an interview that the identity of the CIA operative, Ms. Plame, was widely known-well before Mr. Cooper talked to his sources. “You know this game as well as I do,” Mr. Sidey said. “That name was knocking around in the sub rosa world we live in for a long time.”

The veteran reporter’s claim that the case does not involve national security appeared to be at odds with Mr. Pearlstine’s repeated statements last week that such issues factored into his decision to turn over the disputed documents.

In a brief interview yesterday, Mr. Pearlstine said he was simply echoing the invocations of national security by the courts that have heard the case. “The Supreme Court’s denial of certiorari was tantamount to an acceptance that it was a matter of national security, since that was so much a part of the trial court and appeals court decisions,”the editor said.“I was never raising a conclusion of my own as to the question of whether this case truly involves a matter of national security.It’s, in fact, not at all clear to me it does.” </i>