Talk:Ted Sorensen

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Uhh.. is that last part proven?

I modified the language a bit. While Kennedywas important, evidence points to Sorenson at least as an important contributor.

dino 20:40, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Name? Sorensen or Sorenson?

There seems to be some degree of confusion about his name. Relevant searches in Google clearly suggest that writers on the Internet mostly prefer to call him Sorensen. Among the websites prefering this spelling are John F. Kennedy Library and Museum.--Troels Nybo 12:38, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

I agree. When you search JFK Library, you get 97 with Sorensen and 12 answers to Sorenson. And some of the latter are used in the library forum, which are documents of newer dates normally prefering the -son version. So it should be corrected. --Hansjorn 21:01, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
Someone seems to have put a diacretic mark on the "o" (whcih I think is Swedish or Norweigan). This is crazy (or an act of pretension). Sorensen would never have used this, any more than someone of German ancestry would continue to use an umlaut (countless other examples spring to mind...) His used the americanisation for his name.
His name is quoted as "Ted Sorenson" by C-SPAN during his appearance on 10/17/2007 at the JFK School of Government to discuss the Cuban missile crisis. Evan Chaney (talk) 16:44, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
Article says he's of Danish ancestry. Assuming this, then his name is sEn, duhh! But beyond that: really, anyone with sense is not going to decide the issue by the Kennedy library, they'll check sites like booksellers or libraries to see how his *publishers* spell his name. Hurmata (talk) 03:22, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Uhh.. is that last part proven (part two)

"...it was clearly Sørensen that provided most of the work that went into the end product." Clear to who? Certainly not to me. Kennedy's handwritten "notes" were probably a lot more than that, I'll bet. And Good Grief - an affidavit from Sorensen, for crying out loud. These count a heck of a lot more to me that some probably partisan historian's "analysis". (Look up affidavit in Wikipedia to see what I mean.)

[edit] Advised by college adviser, not by a U.S. Senator

A previous editor said that the reason Sorensen applied for a job on the staff of Sen. JFK was he was advised to do so by "Illinois Senator Paul Douglas" and cited an article at ABC News online as the source. I checked the article and it says something else. The article is spread over four Web pages and there didn't seem to be a utility to show it as a single page. On the third page, it says that Sorensen was advised by "his college adviser" to lie about his age in order to be eligible to apply for the job. I've made the corresponding change in the article. Hurmata (talk) 03:17, 19 May 2008 (UTC)