Posted on 10/31/2010 1:24:17 PM PDT by EveningStar
Theodore Chaikin Sorensen, whose prose mingled with the thoughts and words of his close friend John F. Kennedy to create some of the most memorable presidential speeches of the 20th century, has died, a week after suffering a stroke.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
In May 2008, Sorensen in his autobiography, Counselor, largely confirmed allegations that he had done much, if not most, of the writing [of John F. Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Profiles in Courage”. Sorensen wrote that he “did a first draft of most chapters,” “helped choose the words of many of its sentences,” and “privately boasted or indirectly hinted that [he] had written much of the book.” Sorensen claimed that in May 1957, Kennedy “unexpectedly and generously offered, and I happily accepted, a sum” for his work on the book. The sum Kennedy paid to Sorensen exceeded half the book’s royalties from its first five years of sales and led Sorensen to inform Kennedy that he was disinclined to push for recognition of his participation.—wikipedia
JFK’s brain dies almost 47 years after JFK is assassinated.
In older versions (pre-scrubbed) of Bartlett's this sentence is attributed to multiple speakers throughout the last hundred years. It is a cliche. Sorenson is lying when he pretends he doesn't know he lifted it from his intellectual superiors.
I'm glad Mother Nature has cleansed the body politic of one more pustule of the Kennedy disease.
One less Democrat to vote on Tuesday.
Oh, my mistake. He'll probably vote anyway.
I was about to scold you ..but then you came out with this....funny
I agree. IMO, he was JFK's most important factotum.
But nobody in today’s democrat-obsessed media will ever go on record admitting this “inconvenient factoid” ....
Watch what they do repeat about the fables of Camelot.
A hired gun for the Rats all his life. Still, he did a nice job on “Profiles in Courage.”
“We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans — born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
This much we pledge — and more.”
words no modern dem would ever speak.
Didn’t he write Profiles of Courage, or was it When England Slept? I’m sure he wrote at least one of the books that JFK took credit for.
The good die young.
Profiles in Courage. See post #2.
” proud of our ancient heritage”
This phrase ALONE would make a modern Dem’s head explode......
POS apologist for polygamy, serial infidelity, circus circus drug abuse. He also went on to apologize for LBJ, McNamara and Vietnam. Go swiftly to hell Inabler!
POS apologist for polygamy, serial infidelity, circus circus drug abuse. He also went on to apologize for LBJ, McNamara and Vietnam. Go swiftly to hell Inabler!
For many years, when questioned about whether he wrote all of Kennedy’s best lines, Sorensen would answer, “Ask not.”
Bottom line. Flak extraordinaire. The word “spin” did not exist in those days. In today’s terms, he was a spinmeister
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