Ted Sorensen

Ted Sorensen
Sorensen in 1983
White House Counsel
In office January 20, 1961 – February 29, 1964
President	John F. Kennedy Lyndon Johnson
Preceded by	David Kendall
Succeeded by	Mike Feldman
Personal details
Born	Theodore Chaikin Sorensen (1928-05-08)May 8, 1928 Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.
Died	October 31, 2010(2010-10-31) (aged 82) New York City, New York, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Camilla Palmer (1949, divorced) Sara Elbery (1964, divorced) Gillian Martin (1969)
Children	4, including Juliet
Relatives	Christian A. Sorensen (father) Philip C. Sorensen (brother)
Education	University of Nebraska, Lincoln (BA, LLB)

Theodore Chaikin Sorensen (May 8, 1928 – October 31, 2010) was an American lawyer, writer, and presidential adviser. He was a speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy, as well as one of his closest advisers. President Kennedy once called him his "intellectual blood bank".^[1] He collaborated with Kennedy on the book Profiles in Courage , "assembling and preparing" much of research on which the book was based. Kennedy won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. 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.