Hugh Sidey, 1927-2005.When new members of our staff would ask me why Hugh Sidey Hugh Sidey (September 3,1927 – November 21, 2005) was an American journalist and worked for Life magazine starting in 1955, then moved on to Time magazine in 1957. remained on our editorial advisory board even though his politics had become more conservative than the Monthly's, I would tell them this story. In late December of 1968, as we were preparing our first issue for publication in January, Bill Moyers called to say he was experiencing writer's block writer's block Psychiatry An occupational neurosis of authors, in whom creative juices are temporarily or permanently inspissated on a piece he was doing for us and didn't think he could get it finished in time. I felt we had to have the article, so, asked Hugh Sidey, whom I knew Bill admired for his fair-but-tough coverage of LBJ, to go to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of to interview Bill and make the piece into a Q & A. Hugh agreed, even thought he was frantically busy, writing his regular column and had just taken over as Washington bureau chief of Time. We then proceeded to send him on a wild goose chase an attempt to accomplish something impossible or unlikely of attainment. See also: Goose from Washington to LaGuardia Airport LaGuardia Airport (IATA: LGA, ICAO: KLGA, FAA LID: LGA) is an airport serving New York City, New York, United States, located on the waterfront of Flushing Bay, and borders the neighborhoods of Astoria, Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst in the borough to East 76th Street in Garden City, Long Island, where we had told him he would find Bill, to East 76th Street in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , where Bill actually was. But Hugh persevered, and came back with the interview, which we proudly printed in our first issue. Hugh was an unpretentious man who never forgot his Iowa roots. He avoided fancy words, expressing his common sense observations about the people and events of Washington in a voice as authentically American as Mark Twain's. Although our political philosophies have diverged over the years, we have continued to try to emulate Hugh's common sense and natural style. And of course we will be forever grateful for his help at a crucial moment for the Monthly. |
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