Talk:Ted Sorensen

message: Uhh.. is that last part proven?
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I modified the language a bit.  While Kennedywas important, evidence points to Sorenson at least as an important contributor.
dino 20:40, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "...it was clearly Sørensen that provided most of the work that went into the end product."
Clear to who?  Certainly not to me.  Kennedy's handwritten "notes" were probably a lot more than that, I'll bet.  And Good Grief - an affidavit from Sorensen, for crying out loud.  These count a heck of a lot more to me that some probably partisan historian's "analysis".  (Look up affidavit in Wikipedia to see what I mean.)
:Sorensen, in his 2008 memoir Counselor, admitted to having written large sections of Profiles in Courage, and even reluctantly confessed that "he may have" bragged about writing the book at Washington cocktail parties and such. To keep him quiet Sorensen stated that JFK made him a "generous" offer which included half of the book's royalties. Several respected historians have confirmed this account, including Herbert Parmet in his 1980 biography Jack: The Struggles of John F. Kennedy, and historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. in his Journals, 1952-2000. The fact that none of this is even so much as mentioned in this article - and this was a major news story involving Sorensen, both at the time and later - is yet another example of Wiki whitewashing certain articles to exclude anything "embarrassing" about the subject being discussed, imo. 184.3.106.126 (talk) 19:21, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I should add that there is an entire Wiki article on Profiles in Courage which discusses the controversy. I would suggest that, at the very least, a link to this article be provided in this article on Sorensen. Given that historians have extensively written about this controversy, I would think that an article on Sorensen should at least make mention of it. 184.3.106.126 (talk) 20:06, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: ''Profiles in Courage'': Did Sorensen Write It?

message: A previous editor said that the reason Sorensen applied for a job on the staff of Sen. JFK was he was advised to do so by "Illinois Senator Paul Douglas" and cited an article at ABC News online as the source. I checked the article and it says something else. The article is spread over four Web pages and there didn't seem to be a utility to show it as a single page. On the third page, it says that Sorensen was advised by "his college adviser" to lie about his age in order to be eligible to apply for the job. I've made the corresponding change in the article. Hurmata (talk) 03:17, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Advised by college adviser, not by a U.S. Senator

message: User:Garkbit (whose User page is effectively blank) denounced "off his age" as "unnecessary quirky phrase". "Take a year off your age" means misrepresent your age as one year less than the true value. "Took a year to join Kennedy's office" means he spent an entire year taking steps that led to his being hired by Kennedy's office; it does not mean he spent a year working for Kennedy. The latter was of course not the intended meaning. Hurmata (talk) 21:27, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Editor who objected to "took a year off his age"

message: Perhaps more could be said on his speech writing style and its reception. (Though for me it always feels like someone trying to redo or not being able to avoid redoing Julius Caesar) Tsinfandel (talk) 12:41, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Rhetoric

message: The article seems to imply Sorensen's current wife is the mother of all the children. He was married to Camilla and divorced her apparently in the early days of working for Kennedy. From his book Counselor it appears the sons come from this first marriage.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.83.186.248 (talk) 05:20, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Mother of sons

message: Would an interview with Theodore Sorensen from 1986 be useful here as an external link? Focus of conversation is nuclear weapons policy. http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_5E604A7924124D9EAFED090FA8FCA2AD (I helped with the site, so it would be conflict of interest for me to just add it.) Mccallucc (talk) 16:30, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  External link to interview on nuclear policy? 

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