postcode late ted sorensen used to say when you ask them, as you know, did you write that or did johnennedy write that? >> guest: that drove the family crazy because they thought he was saying i wrote it. but her member kennedy comment tandy's widow said i think i traced that thing back which was great because we thought ted had written it. he honestly drafted a lot of that stuff for kennedy, but for 56 to 60 coming years to young guys in his 30s. he was only in his 20s. trapped in the country, the whole country all around putting things on the map. ted drafted none, then finding that in writing it again. his speeches were well delivered. they were well written and it was only 60 or so he began to learn how to give a good speech. >> host: lets talk about kennedy the senator. i was in his time until two weeks and he was inaugurated as president. was politically aware in the 50s. but i remember from guys all around. well and he was in the senate he married jackie and almost died. someone, i guess he or someone the book. >> guest: i think sorensen wrote it. i think if you read it again.

"perhaps ted sorensen, with his trademark verb first, ask not formulations, might rival noonan as the best white house word-crafter of the television age. but sorensen writing for john kennedy, or for that matter noonan composing soaring scripts for reagan's second term, had it easy. bush was an infinitely greater challenge. in writing his 1988 gop convention address, noonan miraculously transformed the bush of the stumbling syntax and clotted catch-phrases into a quiet leader, sensitive enough to glimpse a 1,000 points of light, but strong enough to say flatly: read my lips, no new taxes. now noonan, who retired from politics with bush's inaugural address, has written the funniest, most richly textured, nervously self-effacing, and deftly observed political memoir likely to come out of the 1980s." what's your reaction to that? this is a gentleman not of the same political persuasion, i suspect, as john podhoretz, basically... >> guest: i'm afraid i have only banal things to say when i read that. i just thought "oh, that is just so great. thanks, walter!" you know? i tried to write a