Word: shriver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Joseph D. Tydings, 36, will follow in the path of his stepfather, Maryland's longtime Democratic Senator Millard Tydings (1927-50). A self-styled "Ken- nedy Democrat," Joe Tydings was a J.F.K. crony and appointee (U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland), had Marylander Eunice Kennedy Shriver as chairman of his "Citizens for Tydings" organization. For Incumbent Republican Senator James Glenn Beall, 70, a lackluster moderate who spent ten years in the House and another twelve in the Senate, the defeat was his first ever...
...Most likely of all cabinet officers to go is Secretary Cellebrezze, a political appointment who has unfortunately lived up to everyone's limited expectation. The two main contenders for the job appear to be Whitney Young, Director of the Urban League, and Sargent Shriver...
...Shriver is held in high esteem by Johnson, but he will probably not receive the appointment. The President apparently feels that Shriver's prestige is needed to make the War on Poverty a going operation. And after a long congressional hassle this summer over the need for an autonomous agency to combat poverty, the program is not about to be shifted under the aegis of HEW to accommodate its director. Anyway, Shriver has his eye on the Illinois Senate seat which Paul Douglas will reportedly vacate in 1966. This leaves Young, who would be the first Negro Cabinet member...
...Matter of Age. After the election, Moyers left Lyndon and struck out as a New Frontier bureaucrat on his own. He helped Sargent Shriver set up the Peace Corps, became its director of public affairs at 27 and a deputy Peace Corps director at 28-one of the youngest officials ever to require Senate confirmation...
LaMonte will fly to Washington on Friday with two other PBH officers, first vice-president Malcom R. Pfunder '65 and treasurer Michael F. Rein '65, to confer with Daniel P. Moynihan, an assistant Secretary of Labor. They will ask Moynihan, one of Sargent Shriver's assistants, whether the Anti-Poverty Act covers any PBH project...