Sid Richardson Hosts the President
**Researched and written by independent scholar Deborah Reed** How did the seventh child of an East Texas peach farmer and saloon owner become America’s richest man and host to the President of the United States? Like any good story involving Sid Richardson, one should settle down for a spell of swapping spit over the fence. The first time Sid Richardson hosted a president was in the summer of 1937. President Franklin D. Roosevelt left Washington for a fishing trip on the Texas coast Friday, April 30. However, Richardson’s part of the story starts much earlier with meeting the President’s second [...]