Hugh S. Sidey

(1927-2005) lived in Omaha. Journalist, author, covered nine U.S. Presidents as Washington, DC correspondent for Time and Life magazines from 1958 to 1996, including 30 years as author of column titled “The Presidency”; authored or co-authored eight books, the majority biographies of presidents. Consult Time, June 8, 1987, p. 26 and Contemporary Authors, Vol 124 (Gale, 1988) 405-406 and Omaha World Herald, May 4, 1996, p. 53 and February 16, 1998, pp. 1-2 and November 21, 2002, p. B-3 and Who’s Who in America, Vol 2 (2003) 4851 and obituaries in Omaha World Herald, November 22, 2005, p. A-7 and Washington Post, November 22, 2005, p. B-5 and New York Times, November 23, 2005, p. A-25.

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