Word: shriver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...concerned getting him re-elected is the most important thing." He tucked his hand under his belt again. "I'm pretty sure the President won't make a selection until after the Republican convention is over." He discounted Tuesday's trial balloon from the White House about Sargent Shriver for the post as a trial balloon. The President will fly a few more before this thing is over," he said...
Michael Shinagel, Peace Corps adviser, said yesterday that he and Dean Monro issued the invitation when Shriver's visit was made known last month. The Corps director will probably use Harvard as his "kickoff point," Shinagel said...
...Shriver's office affirmed yesterday that Shriver will be giving an important speech at Harvard, but the topic of the talk has not yet been designated. According to Shinagel, Shriver has also been of offered the guest suite of Quincy House for his headquarters...
...Sargent Shriver. Arguments for: Kennedy family member without the Kennedy name, a Catholic, a good record as director of the Peace Corps, business experience as onetime overseer of Joe Kennedy's Merchandise Mart. Argument against: no elective experience...