Partly because I was once a speechwriter for a politician, one of my personal heroes is Ted Sorensen, best known as JFK’s speechwriter. 
Thus, I am delighted to be reading his memoir, Counselor. Incidentally, while he acknowledges that when he dies, all obituaries will refer to him as “JFK’s speechwriter,” his role was actually far more broad. For example, I had always believed that it was Bobby Kennedy who, in essence, saved the world during the Cuban Missile Crisis, but I learned of Sorensen’s significant role.
In the book’s introduction, Sorensen notes that he had a stroke in 2001 and questioned whether he would be able to write his memoirs. Readers owe a great debt to the friend of Sorensen’s who told him “Just tell stories.”
And so he has in enlightening and fascinating fashion.