Ted Sorensen

Theodore Chaikin Sorensen 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". Notably, though it was a collaborative effort with Kennedy, Sorensen was generally regarded as the author of the majority of the final text of Profiles in Courage, and stated in his memoir that he helped write the book. Profiles in Courage won Kennedy the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Sorensen helped draft Kennedy's inaugural address and was also the primary author of Kennedy's 1962 "We choose to go to the Moon" speech.

8 May 1928

Born on the same birth day (8 May): Akebono Tarō • David Winning • Giovanni Battista Gaulli • James H. Kindelberger • Jordyn Huitema • Korey Stringer • Lex Barker • Michel Gondry • Mladen Markač • Naomi Klein • Nathaniel Dance-Holland

Born in the same month (May 1928): Arnold Rüütel • Barbara Ann Scott • Billy Martin • Burt Bacharach • Dave Dudley • Enrique Bolaños • Freddie Redd • Frederik H. Kreuger • Jacques-Louis Lions • John Mackenzie (film director) • Lothar Schmid • Maynard Ferguson • Pancho Gonzales • Pankaj Roy • Pro Hart • Sally Forrest • Serge Doubrovsky • T. Boone Pickens • Thomas Kennedy (RAF officer) • You Sano