Word: sidey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hugh Sidey's article on American taxation [April 17] omits one major cause for potential tax revolt. Nobody objects to taxation per se. What we are increasingly angry about is the idiotic ways our hard-earned money is spent...
...Sidey says of Beardsley Ruml that "in tax matters, too, he took the path of least resistance." This is a singularly inept description of Ruml, who fought for four years to gain acceptance of a new tax idea from an initially hostile Congress and Administration. Ruml was a resounding response to the oft-heard question, "What...
...been a long, fascinating, marvelous journey," mused TIME's Hugh Sidey last week. "And now the time has just come for a change." After 17 years as deputy head and then chief of our Washington, D.C., bureau, Sidey is stepping down. I am glad to report that he will continue to write his column, "The Presidency," for TIME. His replacement as bureau chief is Robert Ajemian, most recently the magazine's national political correspondent. In addition to his column, Sidey will doubtless take on other assignments. Writing, after all, is in his blood. Born to a family...
...began reporting for TIME as a Washington correspondent in 1958, and has assessed six presidencies, including, of course, Jimmy Carter's. In the process, Sidey saw his city change. "Washington used to be a much slower town," he says of his early years there. "It was a more human undertaking. There was more laughter then too, and I miss that...
...ailing Hubert Humphrey watching the action from home. "I admire politicians," Ajemian confesses. "They're the best of the survivalists. They work so hard to conceal their wounds. But when they do trust you and allow you to look behind that psychological armor, it's fascinating." Like Sidey before him, Washington Bureau Chief Ajemian can be counted on to look behind that psychological armor and report the fascinating findings to TIME's readers...