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Topic: Theodore Sorensen, JFK counselor (1928-2010)
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Robert Pearlman
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posted 10-31-2010 04:17 PM
   
Associated Press: Theodore Sorensen, top JFK aide, dies at 82 in NY 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.He died at noon at a New York hospital from complications of a stroke, his widow, Gillian Sorensen, said. ...In April 1961, weeks into the Kennedy presidency, the Soviet Union launched the first man into orbit. Less than a month later, Alan Shepard became the first American in space with a 15-minute suborbital flight. The idea of a moon landing "caught my attention, and I knew it would catch Kennedy's," Sorensen recalled. "This is the man who talked about new frontiers. That's what I took to him." Shortly after Shepard's landmark flight, Kennedy said: "I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth." U.S. astronauts met that deadline in July 1969.  A moment of silence can be signified by a reply with no words and only a period. |
Delta7
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posted 10-31-2010 06:13 PM
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