Word: shriver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's message was delivered as a preface to a spech by R. Sargent Shriver, director of the peace corps, to a National Conference on Youth Service Abroad meeting here at American University...
...tone of the President's message, Shriver warned that the emergence of youthful political leaders in Africa and other possible areas for peace corps work would have to be answered by young people willing and able to "create a new impression of America abroad...
This new impression in the eyes of the needy of the world, Shriver said, could only be achieved "by working with them, living with them, struggling with them, and trying to understand their culture, their ideals and ambitions...
...answer to a question from the floor, Shriver noted the definite place for liberal arts students in the peace corps despite the President's request for technically skilled people. Considering the low level of education of many African teachers, Shriver said that any American graduate with a knowledge of teaching methods would obviously be "a great asset" to any African school...
Actor Peter Lawford is virtually the only male relative of the Kennedy family who still has no Government job. In addition to Brother Bobby as Attorney General and Brother-in-Law Sarge Shriver as director of the Peace Corps, Brother-in-Law Steve Smith was discovered working quietly as an unpaid consultant for the Development Loan Fund. In faraway Seattle, Herbert Legg, Washington State Democratic chairman, was prompted to remark: "The Kennedys have what one might call an English awareness of friends and relatives, because they know their friends and relatives are qualified-else they wouldn't be friends...