Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Museum Director Perry T. Rathbone has arranged a simultaneous exhibition of paintings by John Singer Sargent and Winslow Homer which were on loan to the White House during JFK's occupancy. A rare 15th century Hafner Ware bust, presented to the Museum by a New York collector as a memorial to Kennedy will also be exhibited...
...convention any member of my Cabinet or any of those who meet regularly with the Cabinet." So saying, Lyndon not only ruled out Bobby Kennedy but also knocked off two other men whose partisans had been making Veep noises-Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Peace Corps Boss Sargent Shriver...
...approved by the Senate, the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, under the proposed aegis of Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, provides for a work-training program aimed at stemming the growing school-dropout population, a work-study program to help needy college students, a $340 million fund to aid localities in their own anti-poverty schemes, and money for rural-poverty loans and small-business loans. The only major Senate amendment was one introduced by Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers. It was a sort of concession to states' rights forces, and gave Governors the power to veto...
...present his competition comes from Secretary McNamara because his appeal to business will help Johnson ensnare dissident Republicans and from Bobby Kennedy because his Catholicism will counter that of Congressman Miller. (Sargent Shriver appears to be a casualty of the war on poverty...
...Robert Sargent Shriver Jr.,* director of the Peace Corps...