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...some New York doctors. Said Press Secretary Pierre Salinger: "We'll probably send it to the National Archives to age." Kennedy took in a show given by Caroline's kindergarten class and attended a party thrown by his staff. There he was coaxed into reading a Ted Sorensen-written speech that began: "Twoscore and six years ago, there was brought forth at Brookline, Mass. . . ." At night he and most of the Kennedys, plus such personal friends as Actor David Niven and Florida Senator George Smathers, cruised the Potomac on the Secretary of the Navy's yacht Sequoia...
...BETTY SORENSEN Visalia, Calif...
...National Security Council executive committee into conference at Hyannisport. One by one and two by two they arrived-Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Joint Chiefs Chairman Maxwell Taylor, Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric, Under Secretary of State George Ball, Bobby Kennedy, White House Adviser McGeorge Bundy, Special Counsel Ted Sorensen, Kremlinologist Llewellyn E. Thompson
...conspicuous effort was President Kennedy's Yale University speech. It was the work of several minds. Sometime Harvard History Professor Arthur Schlesinger Jr., now a presidential assistant, tried several drafts. Another former Harvard professor, Economist John Kenneth Galbraith (now Ambassador to India) contributed a memo. Presidential Aide Ted Sorensen, a longtime Kennedy speechwriter, put together a separate draft, which, with some sprinklings from Schlesinger and Galbraith, became the basis of the final ver sion. Kennedy himself devoted hours to rewriting the speech, and he was still jotting away on the speaker's platform at Yale when the moment...
...with" the A.D.A. type. Aside from Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman and Presidential Assistant Arthur Schlesinger Jr., no prominent Administration officials hold A.D.A. membership cards. Chester Bowles, Soapy Williams, Arthur Goldberg and Abraham Ribicoff had all ceased to be members before they joined the Administration team. Presidential Special Counsel Ted Sorensen was an A.D.A. fire-eater in his college days, but drifted out five years ago. "If an organization is large enough," says a White House insider, "the President may feel that he has to explain an action to it, or even consult it. The A.D.A. is not one of those...