Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George McGovern, Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew have all revealed their financial worth. Last week it was Sargent Shriver's turn, and it proved to be the most surprising disclosure to date. Shriver, married to a Kennedy millionairess, turned out to be the poorest of the quartet of main political contenders. He put his net worth at the round figure...
...rest of George McGovern's campaign had gotten off to a halting start, Vice Presidential Candidate Sargent Shriver was already bringing an early New Frontier élan to the race. Some of his bright-eyed lieutenants recruited from the old Peace Corps ranks even seemed to welcome Richard Nixon's lead in the polls. Said one breathlessly: "It's so much more of a challenge this way, don't you think?" TIME Correspondent Timothy Tyler spent four days following the Shriver campaign and offered these impressions: At McGovern-Shriver headquarters in Washington, one of Sargent Shriver...
...chief rival. Ripon society member and state Representative Martin Linsky (R-Brookline), was conceded the race by most observers last Spring due to an established base and close ties to Governor Fransis W. Sargent...
...TIME Correspondent Samuel Iker could not believe his eyes when he saw "his" dispatch on Sargent Shriver's recent visit to Houston, a copy of which was routinely relayed back to him from TIME'S New York headquarters. The first three paragraphs had been mysteriously amended to include such Shriver-serving phrases as "Shriver reminded his warm, attentive audience..." Retracing the path of the material, Iker recalled that he had originally entrusted it to a campaign aide for delivery to Western Union. When Iker protested to Shriver staffers, they checked into the matter and discovered that a middle...
Lyndon Johnson came first. The former President had endorsed him perfunctorily the week before, so McGovern flew down to the Pedernales to see if he could stretch the Johnson support a bit farther. He brought Sargent Shriver along, hoping that Shriver's warmer relations with L.B.J. might help ease the chill of the meeting. At Johnson's insistence, neither staff nor reporters were invited. Johnson greeted the candidates in ranch clothes and a flowing, whitish Buffalo Bill mane. Sitting in lawn chairs beneath a towering oak as they sipped iced tea, then going inside the ranch house...