Word: shriver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sargent Shriver, Director of the Peace Corps, will visit the Boston area in February to recruit applicants for the regular program and participants in the special project, Michael Shinagel, associate director of the Office for Graduate and Career Plans, disclosed last night. Shinagel speculated that Shriver "may make a major policy speech at Harvard...
Moyers was named executive assistant for Johnson's 1960 vice-presidential campaign, but became restless again and left to take a job with Sargent Shriver's Peace Corps. There, he told Johnson, he could best satisfy his urge to serve mankind. Within two years he was Shriver's deputy. Last week Moyers appeared once again as a top untitled aide to the President...
...Jackie's side throughout the week was Bobby Kennedy. Even before Jackie returned from Dallas, Bobby tried to encourage others, went to his Justice Department office where he kept repeating: "Cheer up. Cheer up." It was Bobby who assigned to his brother-in-law, Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, the job of seeing to it that all of Jackie's many requests were fulfilled...
...Times at Breakfast. Next morning during breakfast with Rose he became more suspicious when his New York Times was not beside his plate. During his usual wading in the swimming pool, he failed to respond to the forced family pleasantries. After Joe had changed clothes, Teddy and Eunice Shriver joined their father in his bedroom. When he asked to turn on the television set, Teddy stalled, said it did not work. Old Joe pointed to the unplugged power cord. Teddy reluctantly inserted it-but as the screen began to flicker on, he yanked the cord out again. Then he told...
Some Startled Calls. It was still quite a party. After dinner, the 116 guests followed the President and his sister, Eunice Shriver, official White House hostess because of Jackie's convalescence, up to the second-floor balcony for the show. After the marching and the bagpipes, the fireworks began bursting and blasting on the South Lawn. It was a magnificent display, although it did startle some Washingtonians who phoned newspapers and police stations to find out what all the noise was about...