Word: sorensens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brandished Threats. Newsmen in the new State Department Auditorium sensed immediately that they were in for a torrid session. Glancing neither to left nor right, Kennedy marched to the stage, grimly be gan reading a statement that had been drafted by Goldberg, rewritten by Aide Ted Sorensen and changed in the last minutes by Kennedy himself. "In this serious hour in our nation's history." said Kennedy, "when we are confronted with grave crises in Berlin and Southeast Asia, when we are devoting our energies to economic recovery and stability, when we are asking reservists to leave their homes...
...unions and Southern industries. Johnson made that announcement as chairman of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity; he also heads the National Aeronautics and Space Council and is chairman of the Peace Corps advisory board. Beyond President Kennedy himself and top White House Aide Ted Sorensen, Johnson is the only Administration official who regularly attends Cabinet meetings, National Security Council sessions, the weekly White House conference with legislative leaders and the briefings before presidential press conferences. He has acted as the President's personal representative on missions to Africa, to Southeast Asia, to Sweden...
...early as last September, department and agency heads in Washington started passing along to the White House their program and budget requests for the coming year. President Kennedy and Aide Ted Sorensen collected the pieces, sifted and shifted them until a picture took shape; then, last week. Sorensen flew to Palm Beach with an outline of the President's State of the Union message, to be delivered to Congress this week. In Palm Beach, the President reviewed the Sorensen outline, penciled in copious notes and packed Sorensen off to the Palm Beach Towers hotel to draft the actual speech...
Army Talk. Between sessions with Sorensen, the President took a hard new-look at the U.S. military establishment in general-and the Army in particular. To Palm Beach came Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Defense Secretary Robert Mc-Namara. Deputy Secretary Roswell Gilpatric and Presidential Military Adviser Maxwell Taylor. Next day they were joined by the Joint Chiefs of Staff-Chairman Lyman Lemnitzer and the uniformed heads of each of the services. The talk turned from the defense budget to streamlining the Army's organization. Time and again, when proposals were made, the President insisted on having them spelled...
...Kennedy "style" came like a hurricane. For a while, the problems of the world seemed less important than what parties the Kennedys went to, what hairdo Jackie wore. Seldom, perhaps never, has any President had such thorough exposure in so short a time. At one point, Theodore Sorensen, Kennedy's special counsel, reminded the president of Kennedy's old campaign line: that he was tired of getting up every morning and reading what Khrushchev and Castro were doing; instead, he wanted to read what the President of the U.S. was doing. Replied Kennedy: "That...