Click here to watch a PSA interview with Theodore Sorensen about the importance of bipartisanship.

Theodore C. (Ted) Sorensen is Of Counsel to the U.S. law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, and is the former chairman of the firm's International Practice Committee.

Mr. Sorensen is the former special counsel and adviser to President John F. Kennedy. He is on the Advisory Board of the Foreign Policy Leadership Council and the Century Foundation. He was a director of the Council on Foreign Relations until 2004.

Mr. Sorensen is the author of the 1965 book Kennedy, an international best seller, seven other books on the Presidency, politics or foreign policy, and numerous articles on those subjects in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, and other publications.

As an active figure in the Democratic Party, he has participated in nine of the last 12 Democratic Party National Conventions, and served in a number of governmental, political and civic posts.

Appointed by President Clinton, he served on the Board of the Central Asian-American Enterprise Fund (covering Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan) and the Commission on White House Fellows. In 2002, Mr. Sorensen was a Fellow at the Institute of Politics in Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.