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It was a feeling of hopelessness, of anger, of bitterness. That there was nothing we could do. There was nothing I could do.

Theodore Sorensen

Everything evolved during those three-plus years that we were traveling the country together. He became a much better speaker. I became much more equipped to write speeches for him. Day after day after day after day, he's up there on the platform speaking, and I'm sitting in the audience listening, and I find out what works and what doesn't, what fits his style.

Theodore Sorensen

In the White House, the future rapidly becomes the past; and delay is itself a decision.

Theodore Sorensen

There was nothing like that three-four year period where, just the two of us, we were traveling across the United States. That's when I got to know the man.

Theodore Sorensen

I approached each speech draft as if it might someday appear under Kennedy's name in a collection of the world's great speeches.

Theodore Sorensen

Theodore Sorensen

Theodore Sorensen

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Born: May 8, 1928

Died: October 31, 2010 (aged 82)

Bio: Theodore Chaikin "Ted" Sorensen was an American lawyer, writer, and presidential adviser. He was a speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy, as well as one of his closest advisers. President Kennedy once called him his "intellectual blood bank."

Known for:

Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History (2008)
Kennedy (1951)
Decision Making in the White House (1963)
Why I am a democrat (1996)

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