ted sorensen is the one who clearly wrote a lot of it. but since the pulitzer prize winning author and ted sorensen are gone, i don't know that we will learn very much. brian: drew pearson is writing this. [laughter] he writes a lot about joe kennedy and women. and that his sons followed his example. recalls thather she set next to joe kennedy at dinner one night. i can't remember where the dinner was. and the next morning, she got a very fancy bouquet of flowers from joe kennedy. tyler: what was your mother like an brian: -- what was your mother like and what was her name? was you leave -- libby moore. she got the message from joe kennedy that, had she wanted to respond to those flowers, it would have been easy. entry, friday, october 23. 1964. here's what he wrote. will brian: what is the background on that story? tyler: i don't know. rumors and ihose guess for drew it was more than just a rumor. that j edgar was homosexual. brian: did you ever talk to him about his columns? tyler: sure. in fact, i worked with him for a while. brian: wh

ted sorensen was the person who clearly wrote a lot of it. but since the pulitzer prize winning author and ted sorensen are both gone, i don't think anybody is ever going to know exactly who wrote how much. brian: drew pearson in the diary wrote the following statement on december 20. i don't have the dates here. it was during, when jack kennedy was president. [laughter] brian: he writes a lot about joe kennedy and women. and that his sons followed his example. tyler: my mother recalls that she sat next to joe kennedy at dinner one night. if she told me, i can't remember where the dinner was. and the next morning, she got a very fancy bouquet of flowers from joe kennedy. brian: what was your mother like and what was her name? tyler: her name was you leave -- butler moore. she married my father, then divorced him, and married drew pearson. she went by the name livvy moore pearson most of her life. but she got the message from joe kennedy that, had she wanted to respond to those flowers, it would have been easy. brian: another entry, friday oct

. >> i was also an assistant to ted sorensen for number of years on his memoirs, which is probably the most impressive credential in this crowd and writing speeches in the white house is probably second. ted has a story about the cuban missile crisis where he was a member of the ex-con, which gathered during the missile crisis and when he was asked to produce two speeches, depending on how the missile crisis unfolded, one in the event of an invasion of cuba and the other if-- what with the blockade. he went to write the speeches and he could not write the one about the invasion. he could only write the blockade won and he would tell the story as a way of showing how decision-making process unfolded during the crisis and that played itself out many years later as i was thinking about stories to share today when the radon bin laden happened several years back, i remember i was actually home on my couch and got an alert on my blackberry saying the president was about to deliver some remarks and i was like i did not know of any remarks. [laughter] >> i e-mailed the other speechwriters and