USA – One of late United States President John F Kennedy‘s closest aides, Theodore ”Ted” Sorensen, has died at the age of 82.
As a top speech-writer, Sorensen was credited with writing some of Kennedy‘s most famous words, the British Broadcasting Corporation reports.
He was a key associate throughout Kennedy‘s political career and won particularly praise for his work during the Cuban missile crisis.
President Barack Obama paid tribute, saying Sorensen‘s ”legacy will live on in the words he wrote.”
Sorensen has been credited by some with writing one of Kennedy‘s most famous phrases - “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country” - although Sorensen insisted those were Kennedy‘s words.
The “man on the moon speech” was said to be a close collaboration.
Sorensen was deeply involved in Kennedy‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Profiles in Courage.
Kennedy called him “my intellectual blood bank"
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