Hugh Swanson Sidey

Background

Sidey, Hugh Swanson was born on September 3, 1927 in Greenfield, Iowa, United States. Son of Kenneth H. and Alice Margaret (Swanson) Sidey.

Education

Born in Greenfield, Iowa, in 1927, he attended Iowa State College and graduated with a Bachelor of Surgery in journalism.

Career

After graduation he worked for local newspapers in Council Bluffs and Omaha. While in Omaha, he taught undergraduate journalism classes at Creighton University 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.

In 2006, The Hugh South. 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.

Major events

Sidey reported on major national and international stories such as:

Eisenhower and the U-2 Crisis

Kennedy at the Vienna Summit with Nikita Khrushchev

Kennedy assassinated in Dallas

Nixon trip to China in 1972

Vladivostok with Gerald Ford

Jimmy Carter at Camp David

Lyndon B. Johnson and the "brown shoes" incident

He covered several Presidents, from Eisenhower to Clinton, and was author of the book Time Hugh Sidey"s Portraits of the Presidents. He also hosted the Public Broadcasting Service series The American Presidents.

Sidey served as president of the board of directors of the White House Historical Association from 1998 to 2001, during the White House"s bicentennary celebration. He died of an apparent heart attack while vacationing in Paris.

Former president George H. West. Bush delivered a eulogy at Sidey"s funeral.

Achievements

• Hugh Swanson Sidey has been listed as a noteworthy correspondent by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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• book

  • John F. Kennedy, President

    (Signed By The Author Hugh Sidey.1964 New Edition. Small t...)

  • A very personal presidency: Lyndon Johnson in the White House

    (Book by Sidey, Hugh)

  • 1,000 ideas for better news pictures
  • John F. Kennedy: Portrait of a President by Hugh Sidey

Membership

Served with Army of the United States, 1945-1946. Member White House History Association (chairman 2000-2003).

Connections

Son of; married Alice Anne Trowbridge, December 5, 1953. Children: Cynthia Anne, Sandra, Bettina, Edwin.

Father:

Kenneth H. Son

Mother:

Alice Margaret (Swanson) Son

Spouse:

Alice Anne Trowbridge

child:

Edwin Sidey

child:

Bettina Sidey

child:

Sandra Sidey

child:

Cynthia Anne Sidey