Posted on 10/31/2010 2:17:34 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
NEW YORK — Theodore C. Sorensen, the studious, star-struck aide and alter ego to President John F. Kennedy whose crisp, poetic turns of phrase helped idealize and immortalize a tragically brief administration, died Sunday.
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Interesting guy and of course he really Ghost Wrote “Profiles in Courage”.
He wrote some wonderful speeches.
Do you think AP would ever bloviate like this about a Republican aide?
... and after that spent the rest of his career as a Democrap lobbyist (i.e. vote buyer) for a DeeCee law firm.
I have had a problem with him over the years because Sorenson was engaged in liberal historical revisionism on a constant basis.
Bottom line. Flak extraordinaire. The word “spin” did not exist in those days. In today’s terms, he was a spinmeister
He either stole “ask not what your country can do for you” from a 1959 episode of Disney’s The Adventures of Zorro, or Kennedy gave the same speech before his 1961 inaugural and Disney stole it from him.
Your on the right track but off a few centuries.
Stolen from the Roman Republic. As was most of his so called “writing“.
Good riddance. I don’t get upset when liberal liars die.
One more late flush of the world toilet. Begone you worthless apologist for the biggest tumor of a family that ever infected America.
The line from Zorro was an almost exact duplicate. “Ask not what Spain can do for you, but what you can do for Spain.” This episode was broadcast almost a year and a half before Kennedy’s inauguration. Now, it’s possible Kennedy was using the line in stump speeches during his campaign, although it’s a bit hard to believe it would become famous enough for Disney to use in a TV episode. But who knows.
Sorensen wrote “What would JFK Do” pieces during any Republican administration after Kennedy died- it got real old, and Ted never got over not being part of the Camelot scene anymore.
He knew ‘em all- Jack, Bobby, and Ted, so he had to be aware of what they were really like... right?
Tragically brief only because Johnson was VP.
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