Word: shriver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most entertaining section contains capsule descriptions of the candidates, and reveals the following facts: Yale men (Shriver, Scranton, Morton) outnumber the Harvard men (Lodge, R.F. Kennedy); three vice-presidential hopefuls (Humphrey, Hatfield, McCarthy) are former college professors; Goldwater's wife's maiden name was Johnson; Lodge has stomach ulcers...
Second, he said that Johnson appreciates Shriver's background in business, a background which would season him for the tough political maneuvering in which Johnson revels. As Murray Kempton recently put it in The New Republic, Shriver was the only man Joseph Kennedy trused to collect his rents at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago...
Third, the commentator said that Johnson is extremely impressed by the job Shriver has done with the Peace Corps. His enthusiasm is increased by the fact that Bill D. Moyers--a 29-year old White House staff member whom Johnson greatly admires--actually wants to return to the Peace Corps, where he was second in command...
...Shriver's chief handicap is that he is not extremely well known and has never held elective office. Johnson understands this deficiency. He made Shriver director of the war on poverty partly to increase Shriver's reputation and political stock...
Whether Johnson chooses Shriver, then, depends on how desperately the President thinks he needs him to hold the Kennedy machine. And too, it depends on Johnson's assessment of Shriver's capacity to be a good President...