and ted sorensen's strain during the thousand days strained relationship with arthur. >> ted sorensen is one of the greatest speech writers-- sport-- presidential speech writers of all time and actually schlesinger and that him become a better friends. there is no case in which they weren't rivals during this period. it starts interesting allows-- kennedy since the dropped to less injured-- schlesinger who goes through with his blood-- red pen making suggestions and he speaks in a way that is entirely appropriate to speak to senator kennedy. it's sorensen who has written so much of the initial draft. sorensen feels resentful and effectively feels humiliated in front of senator kennedy, his boss, at that stage. that follows through into the white house. sorensen would do almost anything to stop schlesinger from getting his hands on speeches so very often kennedy will slip a speech issue schlesinger and say don't tell ted and schlesinger would make these changes and kennedy will maybe write them out or make sure-- then sometimes kennedy would put the two of them into direct competition