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Nearly 20 years after he first came to Harvard to author a tribute to his slain mentor, former Kennedy aide Theodone C. Sorensen was back on campus yesterday working for his protege. Democratic Presidential hopeful Sen. Gary Hart (D-Codo...
After leaving the White House in February of 1964. Sorensen went to the comparative quiet of Leverett House to write his memories on the presidency of John F. Kennedy 40, Resuming his New York law practice. Soirensen stayed out of the political limelight until he became involved in the McGovern campaign...
...that discovered the offensive missiles in October. But all along, Kennedy, like others, believed if trouble came with the Soviet Union it would be in a traditional place like Berlin with traditional air and land confrontations. "If we solve the Berlin problem without war," Kennedy told his aide Ted Sorensen one September night, "Cuba will look pretty small. And if there is a war, Cuba won't matter much either." But Cuba turned out to be the place and America the intended target...
...help make the world safe for diversity." Kennedy had reason to hate and distrust, having just come through the Cuban missile crisis, in which the Soviets lied, tricked, cheated and bullied. Yet his experience brought forbearance and long nights of thought. There must be a better way, he told Sorensen...
Kennedy was in Hawaii when the American University draft was finished. Sorensen flew out, and the two polished it, flew back through a Sunday night, landing in Washington at dawn on Monday. Kennedy stopped at the White House to shower and change clothes. Before a few hundred people he spoke his words for our time: "I realize that the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war-and frequently the words of the pursuer fall on deaf ears. But we have no more urgent task...