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Sorensen was President Kennedy's Special Counsel & Adviser, and primary speechwriter, the role for which he is best remembered today.

He was particularly famous for having helped draft the inaugural address in which Kennedy exhorted listeners to " Ask not what your country can do for you ; ask what you can do for your country.

" This call to service is the phrase still most closely associated with the Kennedy administration.

Although Sorensen played an important part in the composition of the Inaugural Address, " the speech and its famous turn of phrase that everyone remembers was ," Sorensen firmly states ( counter to what the majority of authors, journalists and other media sources have claimed ), " written by Kennedy himself.

" In later years, when pressed in interviews if he wrote the phrase, Sorenson would reply tongue-in-cheek " Ask not.