Word: shriver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy offered to contribute part of the airlift expenses from his family's Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation (named after the brother killed in World War II) and to look around for other private funds to help the grounded students. Sargent Shriver, Kennedy's brother-in-law and managing director of the family foundation, found no uncommitted funds in other charitable foundations, in the end recommended that the Kennedy Foundation put up the entire $100,000, and provide unstipulated help for students during their stay...
...Jack Kennedy and his wife Jackie in front, flanked by his parents. Joseph and Rose, with the portrait gallery in the background showing Brother Robert-over his father's right shoulder-followed, in clockwise order, by Grandfather John ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald. Sisters Patricia Lawford, Jean Smith and Eunice Shriver. Brother Edward and Sister Rosemary...
...talking at the lowest level of the campaign, climbing out of West Virginia mine shafts, soaring off Wisconsin ski jumps, buttonholing Idaho delegates, doing whatever is required of him. And, when the campaign script calls for their special talents, there are the glamorous Kennedy sisters: tawny-haired Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 38; leggy Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 36, wife of the movie star; and Jean Kennedy Smith, 32, the slim, tanned baby sister of the family. Together and separately, the sisters knock on doors, preside over kaffeeklatsches, and shed their charm at political banquets, receptions and rallies. And finally, there is Rose...
...foundation has spent $13.5 million on a dozen homes and hospitals for the mentally retarded in Massachusetts, New York, Illinois and California. This year $10 million is being spent recruiting eminent doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists to work on a dramatic new research program. Bobby is the president but Sarge Shriver is the managing director of the foundation and each of the brothers and brothers-in-law is a member of the board, but the prime movers of the foundation come from the distaff side: Pat Lawford runs the West Coast operations, Eunice Shriver is in charge of the Midwest...