Word: sorensens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WATCHMEN IN THE NIGHT by THEODORE C. SORENSEN 167 pages. M.I.T. Press...
...Theodore Sorensen's spare but sprightly volume focuses on a much narrower question: What now for the presidency? In the wry, graceful prose that lent class to the speeches of President Kennedy, Sorensen clings unfashionably to the liberal yearning for strong Presidents. Yet he admits that Kennedy, too, was error-prone and hobbled by the federal bureaucracy and congressional fief. Because "the power to do great harm is also the power to do great good," Sorensen would have his President strongly accountable to an aroused press, Congress, the courts and above all the people. On the grounds that...
Works of Dowland, Britten, Villa-Lobos, Mozart, and Serben: Kart Dan Sorensen, Tenor, David Sussman, Gulter; Adams...
...McGeorge Bundy, 55, and Theodore Sorensen, 46, it was almost like home movies as they watched re-creations of themselves act out their original parts in the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Jean Kennedy Smith, Husband Stephen and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. were among the other guests who gathered in the Sorensens' Manhattan living room to watch ABC's special, The Missiles of October, when it was aired last week. The party was subdued; the handful of friends and followers of the fallen Kennedy brothers were clearly moved by the resemblances to Jack and Bobby...
After the Bay of Pigs, Ted Sorensen, John Kennedy's counsel, gave a backgrounder to newsmen pointing out that the operation had begun under Eisenhower and was carried out by holdovers. It was one of the few times that Sorensen irritated Kennedy. "Don't do that," he rasped. "We made this mistake." Before the successful conclusion of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, Kennedy was certain that his failure to heed the early warnings from Republicans such as Homer Capehart and Kenneth Keating about the missiles would bring Democratic defeats in the fall. Some aides wanted to deprecate...