Word: sorensens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator confirmed that he discussed such a plan with De-fensejSecretary Clark Clifford and went ahead with his candidacy only after Johnson rejected the idea. However, Kennedy said, the commission plan was not originally his nor first advanced by him; Johnson, in a conversation with Kennedy Aide Theodore Sorensen had "welcomed" the notion of a commission and asked Sorensen for specific suggestions. The White House remained officially silent, but aides regarded the scheme as an ultimatum, or blackmail. That, Kennedy said, was an "incredible distortion...
...Kennedy forces under the leadership of former Lieutenant Governor Phillip Sorensen, brother of Kennedy advisor Theodore Sorensen, gathered in Lincoln today to hold secret strategy meetings. In the selection of delegates to the national convention--which is, like New Hampshire, separate from the Presidential preference section on the primary ballot--the Kennedy forces are at a disadvantage. There are only two names on the ballot pledged to Kennedy out of the 28 delegates to be elected...
...maneuver started the day before the New Hampshire vote. It occurred in the course of a twohour conversation between the Pres ident and Kennedy Aide Theodore Sorensen. Reviewing Kennedy's misgivings about the war, Sorensen allowed that the White House was paying too little heed to those who had rational alternatives to his present Viet Nam policy. Johnson replied that he had considered every proposal he knew of, and showed Sorensen a list of the people he had consulted. However, Johnson concluded, he would be glad to hear any new suggestions...
Three days later, after Kennedy had announced that he was reexamining his own inclination to run but before he proclaimed his candidacy, he and Sorensen visited Defense Secretary Clark Clifford. Kennedy named his price for political peace. Insisting that Johnson would have to declare his decision not merely to reevaluate but also to "redirect" the commitment to Viet Nam, he suggested that the President should then appoint a commission for the purpose of proposing a new policy. Kennedy's suggested members for the group included himself and such men as Yale President Kingman Brewster, former Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer...
...victory; and charging into the primaries and convention halls where delegates are to be chosen, Kennedy is grimly aware of what he is up against. Sundry campaign captains recalled to active political service by Kennedy have had phones to ears for days; the feedback has been decidedly mixed. Theodore Sorensen, poring over the political charts, has pointed out the stone walls and blind alleys...