The war-hero president and the pacifist
By James Carroll | Monday, June 2, 2008 | The Boston Globe
“…’I MAY not be able to see you,’ the partially blind, stroke-impaired Ted Sorensen told a crowd at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston last week, ‘but I have more vision than the president of the United States.’ Over 1,000 people gathered to hear JFK’s speechwriter discuss his new book, ‘Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History.’ Those who expected a satisfying draught of the old Kennedy mystique were not disappointed. In the conclusion to his book, Sorensen writes, ‘Today’s sorry political leadership, so different from JFK’s, spurred me on as I wrote, rekindling my memory and reinvigorating my conscience.’…”…BS
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