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...volume; when Heller told Johnson that he had been assigned by Kennedy to draw up an anti-poverty program, Lyndon agreed that it was a good idea. It is especially a good idea for politicians in an election year too. Only last week the President named Peace Corps Chief Sargent Shriver to head up the Administration's anti-poverty campaign...
Last week President Johnson seemed to be sending up a trial balloon for Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver. He had asked Shriver, off on a Peace Corps inspection trip, to deliver personal, confidential messages from the President to Pope Paul VI in the Holy Land, to Jordan's King Hussein, and to Israel's Premier Levi Eshkol...
...fifth in a recent vice-presidential poll among the nation's Democratic county chairmen, and that apparently wasn't good enough for Johnson. So last week, to a surprised group of women reporters at a White House reception, he said apropos of nothing in particular: "I regard Sargent Shriver as one of the most brilliant, most able and most competent officials in government. I regard him as one of my real confidants." And that sent the Shriver balloon soaring up into the stratosphere...
Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, 185 votes; Attorney General Bobby Kennedy, 166; U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, 75; New York City Mayor Robert Wagner, 47; Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, 43; California's Governor Pat Brown, 37; Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy, 28; Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff, 24; Assistant Secretary of Commerce Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 21; and Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington...
Harvard may be Sargent Shrivers "base of operations" when he visits Boston for a week's massive recruiting drive in early March...