it is interesting about ted sorensen. larry could not stand ted sorensen.he irishman would be jealous. larry would have prepared an agenda for the breakfast and just before they were about to start ted would take it and change one or two sentences. we will see that heavy hand in more places. you know, he wanted his imprint on so many things. i told about the profiles. everyone. it is just sneaky. >> he is a better in the white house? >> yes. he finally loved one other person. he had such a crush on jack. he would dare to call him jack. he would blush. i think he wanted to be easy all the ways jack was easy. the civilized side of jack. he knew he was not quite that way. he went into resentment. he was very mixed up. he had an inferiority complex. i never saw him at in the white house. [end audio clip] >> i guess you can conclude that she did not like him. >> that is what i would have to conclude from this. i think it is very unfair, because one of the things that struck me about sorensen was how important it was for him for me to understand that he did not w

it is interesting about tedlarry could not stand ted sorensen. larry would have prepared an agenda for the breakfast andwe will see that heavy hand in more places. on so many things. everyone. >> he is a better in the white house? person. he had such a crush on jack. he would dare to call him jack. he would blush. he knew he was not quite that way. he went into resentment. he was very mixed up. i never saw him at in the white house. [end audio clip] >> i guess you can conclude that she did not like him. conclude from this. because one of the things that to understand that he did not write profiles. sh correct. the man you write its or the man whose name is on the book?" the man who takes responsibility for it. it. in talking to me, it was always kennedy who is the author. that is all i can say. >> reading your books, there is a lot of back room nastyif you listen to these tapes, there are a lot of nasty comments of people. meanwhile, she was sticking up for her husband and her husband country for him. what is the average american supposed to take

who wrote the speech in >> well, ted sorensen wrote much of it. >> rose: ted sorensen? >> yeah, but johnson added his own touches to it. johnson appeals to sorensen. basically i can't remember the exact words that are in the book but he basically sys to him you know, you're president would want his program continue and sorensen said i wanted to commit johnson to president kennedy's program. i wanted him to say i'm for civil rights. i'm for the tax cut. so sorensen writes this speech and johnson writes on it his own words. sorensen says "we've been fighting for this civil rights bill for a year." johnson changes it to "all this long year." he emphasizes his own things. he knows he can't give speeches as well. all his life he's been rushing through speechs so he writes on the speech... it's one of the most poignant things i've seen. he writes "pause between paragraphs." then he writes "pause, pause." and he gives a great speech. >> mr. president, members of the house, members of the senate, my fellow americans all i have i would have given gladly not stop standing here to

ford ted sorensen? >> yes, i did. in adequate for the help he gave me. we both live on central park west. i have four more interviews with him. over and over again, i would call and ask him about something of that gap in the kennedy administration. he was a very thoughtful man. every word i had was considered. why'd you come by after work. i would come by. it meant going into his lobby. we would sit in this wonderful apartment. he was effectively blind. he would sit on one couch. i would sit in the other. it would get dark in the afternoon. he would be talking about things. i would think, i hope nothing further happens to him. he knows a step that nobody else does. his relations to jack kennedy were so special that he himself was so brilliant not just at words but it analyzing things, and that it was like each of these things was a lesson. i hasten to say he would not disagree with everything. he knows things and no one else could have told me. >> what part of this book was the hardest to research and write? >> probably, at the hardest to research was th

. >> well, you know, jackie kennedy once wrote ted sorensen, jack kennedy's speech writer "you must knowrightened my husband became that lyndon johnson might become president one day" that was after the cuban missile process while the kennedys were trying defuse the crisis and prevent a nuclear confrontation with russia really frightened them. as you say, they called him rufus cornpone. they looked down on him. the joke in georgetown was, whatever happened to lyndon johnson? because they thought they had put him out to pasture. >> and it's really stunning to read that in parkland hospital, after the assassination, we know now that the president was already dead. >> yes. >> the vice president was standing alone in a corridor. nobody was paying any attention to him. nobody gave him the courtesy of giving him updates. and you write that "as johnson stood in front of that blank wall, a carnation still in his buttonhole, there was a stillness about him, an immobility, a composure that hadn't been seen very much during the past three years. though he had been for those years restless, unable t