In August 1963, I drove from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, toWashington, To begin the year-long Congressional Fellowship Program.In the orientations that followed, the fellows met with journalists,House and Senate members, lobbyists, and bureaucrats, among otherWashington notables. But the most memorable person who talked to uswas Theodore Sorenson, counselor to President Kennedy, and reputedlyhis most influential staff advisor.