Theodore Sorensen

Mr. President, Put Up Your Dukes

Michael Winship | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Winship

President Obama, as I know Ted Sorensen told you, words are how a president operates, how a president engages a country. Put up your rhetorical dukes -- we know it's what you're good at when you want to be, and the spirit moves you.

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Ted Sorensen, R.I.P.

Jan Herman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jan Herman

Gone. He was a real mensch. I had a short conversation with him in 2006 and asked him a few questions on the chance that he'd actually give me an answ...

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Ted Sorensen, JFK's Speechwriter: A Tribute

Nancy Snow | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nancy Snow

Just yesterday I was reading about Ted Sorensen and his involvement with choosing the head of America's propaganda agency, USIA, after Kennedy's elect...

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Ted Sorensen DEAD: John F. Kennedy Speechwriter, Obama Supporter, Dies At 82

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Of the courtiers to Camelot's king, Theodore C. Sorensen, who died Sunday, ranked just below Bobby Kennedy. He was the adoring, tirel...

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To End War in Afghanistan, Reinstate Military Draft?

Brent Green | Posted 05.25.2011

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Brent Green

U.S. invasions of Vietnam and Afghanistan have eerie similarities. Both had ill-defined military goals, especially exit strategies, making them seemingly endless.

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