Early Life
Sorensen was born in Nebraska, the son of Christian A. Sorensen, a Danish American and Nebraska Attorney General (1929–33), and Annis (Chaikin) Sorensen, who was of Russian Jewish descent. He graduated from Lincoln High School (1945). He earned a Bachelor's degree at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and attended law school there, graduating first in his class.
In January 1953, the 24 year-old Sorensen became the new United States Senator John F. Kennedy's chief legislative aide. "The most important aide ever hired" became a talented mimic of the senator's writing. He authored many of Kennedy's articles and speeches.
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