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Aside from kinfolk, no man was closer to Jack Kennedy than Theodore Chaikin Sorensen. The son of a Nebraska liberal who was campaign manager for Senator George Norris, Ted Sorensen made Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Nebraska, graduated first in his class at law school and went to work in Washington. Late in 1952, Freshman Senator Kennedy hired Sorensen to help write his speeches and magazine articles. The two men were drawn together by a mutual fascination with politics and history, and it was Sorensen who compiled the research for Profiles in Courage...
...Brien will stay, but switch to strictly political duties later this year. O'Brien is eager to quit his role as middleman between the White House and Capitol Hill, and with Johnson in the driver's seat it is easy to see why. >Speechwriter Ted Sorensen will depart, probably before year's end, to write his close-in, intimate view of the Kennedy Administration...
...Congress before he had been introduced by the Speaker ("Wait a minute, Harry," interrupted Sam Rayburn on that April morning in 1945). Neither was it a young, buoyantly hopeful Jack Kennedy, though many of the familiar chiastic constructions had been put into the address by Kennedy Speechwriter Ted Sorensen. This was Lyndon B. John son of Texas, appearing for the first time as Chief Executive before Congress and, even while stressing the theme of continuity in U.S. Government, making it eminently clear that he meant to be his own kind of President...
Returning Veterans. White House Aides Ted Sorensen, Kenny O'Donnell, Pierre Salinger and Larry O'Brien, all veterans of the team, will perform as usual. Salinger has already detailed one of his staff helpers to write a compilation of Kennedy Administration feats. O'Brien refers constantly to an ever-thickening notebook packed with facts on Democratic state organizations. National Committee Chairman John Bai ley sees the President frequently, has made dozens of pep talks to local party leaders whipping up enthusiasm for "work on a political spectacular to be produced in November...
Divorce Revealed. Theodore Chaikin Sorensen, 35, White House speechwriter and Presidential confidant: by Camilla Palmer Sorensen, 35: on grounds of "uninterrupted separation"; after 14 years of marriage, three children; in Fairfax County, Va. on Aug. 9. The Sorensens, both Unitarians, have lived apart since before Kennedy's inauguration, but the divorce was not discovered until last week, after Mrs. Sorensen, who had stayed in Washington, moved to Madison...