Theodore Sorensen, Former Speechwriter for President Kennedy, Dies at 82
Theodore Sorensen, Former Speechwriter for President Kennedy, Dies at 82
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. He was 82.
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Top JFK aide Theodore Sorensen dies at 82
Of the courtiers to Camelot’s king, Theodore C. Sorensen, who died Sunday, ranked just below Bobby Kennedy. He was the adoring, tireless speechwriter and confidant to President John F. Kennedy, whose term was marked by Cold War struggles, growing civil rights strife and the beginnings of the U.S. intervention in Vietnam. Soaring rhetoric helped make Kennedy’s presidency a symbol of hope and …
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