Hugh Sidey
Hugh Sidey
Hugh Sideywas an American journalist who worked for Life magazine starting in 1955, then moved on to Time magazine in 1957...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth3 September 1927
CountryUnited States of America
charge governing love tougher
We love the blather and boast, the charge and countercharge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.
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Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.
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We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.
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A sense of humor is needed armor.
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Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.
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The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.
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In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.
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When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.
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Reagan "has conducted an arms race on earth," boomed Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. The Soviets contributed a little bit to this problem, if Mondale had not noticed.
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We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and The Gong Show seem to have claimed the national campaign.
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China's Premier Zhao Ziyang, for all of his billion constituents, seemed in the evening's lovely flow like a favorite uncle, smiling a little too much, wanting to be a bit American, talking about peace and pork chops.
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A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.
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They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.
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The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.