Word: sorensens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Theodore Chaikin Sorensen, 32. A farm-belt Unitarian and soft-spoken intellectual, Ted Sorensen was introduced to his first political audience at the age of six as the son of Nebraska's Republican attorney general. First in his class at the University of Nebraska law school, he worked for the Federal Security Agency in Washington, joined the staff of freshman Senator Kennedy in 1953. They found keen enjoyment in a common intellectual approach to politics, collaborated on Kennedy's Profiles in Courage. Together, they traveled through every state from 1956 to 1960, compiled a detailed, 30,000-name...
...When Kennedy was fighting for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination at the 1956 Democratic convention, said Reston, Kennedymen circulated a memo arguing that the Catholic vote would swing several key states to the Democrats if Kennedy was on the ticket (TIME, April 18). Principal architect of the memo: Ted Sorensen, key man in the Kennedy-for-President organization...