1. Theodore Chaikin Sorensen was an American lawyer, writer, and presidential adviser.
20 Facts About Ted Sorensen
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Ted Sorensen was a speechwriter for President John F Kennedy, as well as one of his closest advisers.
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Ted Sorensen collaborated with Kennedy on the book Profiles in Courage, "assembling and preparing" much of research on which the book was based.
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Ted Sorensen helped draft Kennedy's inaugural address and Lyndon Johnson's Let Us Continue speech following Kennedy's assassination, and was the primary author of Kennedy's 1962 "We choose to go to the Moon" speech.
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Ted Sorensen's father was Danish American and his mother was of Russian Jewish descent.
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Ted Sorensen earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and attended University of Nebraska College of Law, graduating first in his class.
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Ted Sorensen was President Kennedy's special counsel, adviser, and primary speechwriter, the role for which he is remembered best.
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Ted Sorensen officially resigned February 29,1964, and was the first member of the Kennedy Administration to do so.
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Ted Sorensen was involved with Democratic campaigns and was a major adviser of Robert F Kennedy in Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign.
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Ted Sorensen was challenged in the primary election by Richard Ottinger, Paul O'Dwyer, and Max McCarthy, and polled third.
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In 1973, Ted Sorensen wrote a contingency plan for the presidential transition of the Democratic Speaker of the House Carl Albert.
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Ted Sorensen was the national co-chairman for Gary Hart for the 1984 Democratic Party presidential primaries and made several appearances on his behalf.
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Ted Sorensen was affiliated with a number of institutions, including the Council On Foreign Relations, The Century Foundation, Princeton University, and the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Ted Sorensen was chairman of the advisory board to the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life at Brandeis University.
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Ted Sorensen attended meetings of the Judson Welliver Society, a bipartisan social club composed of former presidential speechwriters.
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Ted Sorensen provided some assistance with President Obama's 2009 Inaugural Address.
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Ted Sorensen served on the advisory board of the National Security Network.
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In 1969, Sorensen married Gillian Martin of the United Nations Foundation.
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On October 31,2010, Ted Sorensen died at the age of 82 at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City of complications from a stroke he suffered the previous week.
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Ted Sorensen has been portrayed as a character in the following films and miniseries:.