Word: sorensens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opposition to Warnke's nomination by the hawks on the Hill has stirred echoes of the recent fight the conservatives put up to block Carter's choice of Theodore Sorensen to head the CIA. Bul Warnke has the strong backing of the liberals, who failed to rally to the support of Sorensen. Democratic Whip Alan Cranston began leading the fight for Warnke's confirmation in the Senate, and Hubert Humphrey declared that the nominee "will be a tough negotiator. He's no patsy. He's no softy...
Most important of all, of course, Carter-who stepped aside when Sorensen got in trouble-has let it be known that this time he will fight for his man. To head off trouble, Carter invited Senator Jackson to a While House breakfast to talk over the nomination. Later, Presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell said Carter fell that Senate confirmation of Warnke was "crucial" to his Administration. Reported Powell: "The President said he fell Mr. Warnke was the best man in the country...
...most important story the Supreme Court decision on low-cost housing in the suburbs. The story was well reported and analyzed by Lesley Oelsner, but the Times printed not one full sentence from either the majority or minority court opinions. It did not even excerpt Theodore Sorensen's statement withdrawing from his CIA appointment. The New Times has become an erratic supplier of the raw materials of history...
Intelligence Committee conservatives such as Barry Goldwater and Strom Thurmond were indeed up in arms over the nomination; their doubts had been fed by the intelligence community, which lobbied against Sorensen. But some liberal Democrats were scarcely less vehement in their opposition. One source of doubt was the fact that Sorensen had registered for the draft as a conscientious objector. Led by Hawaii's Inouye, a much-decorated World War II veteran who lost his right arm in combat, the Senators wondered whether Sorensen would be able to approve agency operations that might endanger life. Sorensen also...
...that, some affidavits that he submitted in the Pentagon papers trial of Daniel Ellsberg surfaced! As a defense witness, Sorensen testified that he, like Ellsberg, had removed classified information without authorization. When Sorensen left the White House in 1964, he took along 67 boxes of documents, seven of them classified. Included were memos on the Kennedy-Khrushchev summit meeting in Vienna, the war in Laos, the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban missile crisis. Sorensen used some of the material for his book Kennedy, then donated all of it to the Kennedy Library. He claimed...