Ted Sorensen, a former special counsel and adviser to President Kennedy, says there's no question about the similarities between the two.

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As most people know, the speech was the product of a collaboration between Kennedy and Ted Sorensen, Special Counsel to the President, and his speechwriter.

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And Ted Sorensen, who used up all the good lines for every President remaining. (Laughter.) And Frank Stella, who obviously is a legend.

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The nature and consequence of our resistance is captured in a poem written before the Great War by Sam Walker Foss and recited in the Nebraska statewide oratory contest by the late Ted Sorensen's father.

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