Word: sorensens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intelligent questioner whose disarming manner often coaxes confidences from a subject who might simply dry up under more abrasive handling. On The David Frost Show, which ran for three years in the U.S. (it went off the air in mid-1972), the host occasionally elicited startling admissions, like Ted Sorensen's statement that Senator Ted Kennedy, his longtime friend and associate, could not in the aftermath of Chappaquiddick run for President...
BECAUSE THE SENATE'S prevailing mood of cooperation with the White House has allowed most of President Carter's nominees--with the striking exception of Theodore Sorensen and Paul Warnke--to be confirmed with hardly a hitch, it came as no surprise that the Senate Finance Committee voted last week to recommend the confirmation of former Harvard financial vice president Hale Champion as Undersecretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
FROM THESE various incidents, a picture of Saltonstall as a gentle patrician emerges. Personally, he is unquestionably kind, generous and honest. On policy questions, Saltonstall and Kennedy disagreed only rarely while in the Senate, and usually cooperated on legislation affecting their state. Saltonstall worked closely with Theodore Sorensen, Kennedy's top aide, while he was recovering from a back operation, and afterwards, Kennedy referred to the senior senator's dealings with "Senator Sorensen...
Judging from the initial reaction, Jimmy Carter should score with his second choice for director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Heavy opposition forced the President's first nominee, Theodore Sorensen, to withdraw. But Carter's second choice, Annapolis classmate ('46) Admiral Stansfield Turner, has aroused no opposition and seems certain of confirmation...
...Turner is nominated, at least part of the reason may be that Carter has chosen to tiptoe carefully down the middle on the CIA question. His first choice for director, Theodore Sorensen, suddenly withdrew from consideration three days before the Inauguration because it had become apparent that he was unacceptable to a powerful coalition of liberals and conservatives on the Senate Intelligence Committee (TIME, Jan. 31). Members of the committee would not commit themselves when asked about Turner, but the admiral seems widely acceptable-to liberals, because he does not come from within the CIA's ranks...