WASHINGTON Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey is an old hand at traveling abroad with Presidents. Richard Nixon's two predecessors kept him constantly on the move. With Lyndon Johnson, he went to Seoul and to Viet Nam; he covered Johnson's two-week tour of Asia in 1966 and the famous 4½-day dash around the world in 1967. Sidey was with Kennedy and Khrushchev in Vienna; he stood below as Kennedy shouted "Ich bin ein Berliner!" in the shadow of the Berlin Wall. And he went along on the young President's visit to the old family sod in Ireland.
Kennedy's trips, says Sidey, "were boisterous affairs,...
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