Hugh Sidey

<h2 id="biography">Biography</h2>
Born in <a href="/facts/Greenfield,_Iowa/S2Pt7eQq">Greenfield, Iowa</a>, in 1927, he attended <a href="/facts/Iowa_State_University/7JgIwlXQ">Iowa State College</a> and graduated with a <a href="/facts/Bachelor_of_Science/9n3gvDf7">B.S.</a> in journalism. After graduation he worked for local newspapers in <a href="/facts/Council_Bluffs,_Iowa/t86oUarh">Council Bluffs</a> and <a href="/facts/Omaha,_Nebraska/05378f5l">Omaha</a>. While in Omaha, he taught undergraduate journalism classes at <a href="/facts/Creighton_University/cdoalG4o">Creighton University</a> where he was exposed to frequent, lengthy political debates between conservatives and liberals alike. He learned the lasting lesson that it was paramount to have all your facts straight and that how you said something was sometimes more important than what you said. An old <a href="/facts/Jesuit/n0PeYBB8">Jesuit</a> at Creighton recommended him to some former students in New York and Sidey landed a job with <a href="/facts/Life_(magazine)/t3r71BEK">Life</a> magazine where he made an immediate impact.
Sidey correctly guessed that something was amiss when in 1966 he saw the fastidiously dressed President <a href="/facts/Lyndon_B._Johnson/PKNthHX1">Lyndon B. Johnson</a> wearing brown shoes with a gray suit. Johnson then flew to Vietnam for a surprise public relations visit later that day.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2">2</a> 
He hosted the <a href="/facts/PBS/E6q9udH8">PBS</a> series The American Presidents. Sidey served as president of the board of directors of the <a href="/facts/White_House_Historical_Association/tkWd78t4">White House Historical Association</a> from 1998 to 2001, during the White House's bicentenary celebration.
Sidey died of an apparent <a href="/facts/Myocardial_infarction/xoGw0qcG">heart attack</a> while vacationing in <a href="/facts/Paris/DrNHpwnA">Paris</a> at the age of 78.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3">3</a> Former president <a href="/facts/George_H._W._Bush/Xk5UxRqp">George H. W. Bush</a> delivered a eulogy at Sidey's funeral. Sidey left behind three daughters, a son and his wife, Anne.
In 2006, The Hugh S. Sidey Scholarship in Print Journalism was established at the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communications at Iowa State University by The White House Historical Association.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4">4</a>

<ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010210100730/http://www.time.com/time/bios/hughsidey.html">"Time biography"</a>. Archived from <a href="http://www.time.com/time/bios/hughsidey.html">the original</a> on February 10, 2001. Retrieved November 23, 2005.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.twbookmark.com/jrun/authors/27/2106/">Time Warner author page</a>[permanent dead link‍]</li></ul>
<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://www.c-span.org/person/?788">Appearances</a> on <a href="/facts/C-SPAN/MdgMU5eM">C-SPAN</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0796582/">Hugh Sidey</a> at <a href="/facts/IMDb_(identifier)/uWrqVYVy">IMDb</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1">Martin, Douglas (2005-11-23). "Hugh Sidey, Who Covered the Presidency for Time, Dies at 78". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-01-31. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/23/us/hugh-sidey-who-covered-the-presidency-for-time-dies-at-78.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/23/us/hugh-sidey-who-covered-the-presidency-for-time-dies-at-78.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:2">Sidey, Hugh (1980-06-30). "The Meaning of the Cordovans" (web reprint). Time. Retrieved 2021-02-12. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:3">"Hugh Sidey". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-02-18. <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0796582/" target="_blank">https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0796582/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:4">"Hugh S. Sidey Scholarship". WHHA (en-US). <a href="https://www.whitehousehistory.org/rubenstein-center/hugh-s-sidey-scholarship" target="_blank">https://www.whitehousehistory.org/rubenstein-center/hugh-s-sidey-scholarship</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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