Word: shrivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent increase in monthly draft calls does not seem to have affected the granting of deferments during Peace Corps service," Sargent Shriver, Director of the Peace Corps, has revealed in a letter to Archie Epps, assistant dean of the College and Peace Corps liaison at Harvard...
...Shriver's letter is in response to a request from Epps for a formal statement of Peace Corps policy regarding volunteer deferments...
...Peace Corps, just then taking shape, appealed powerfully to his evangelistic instincts. He enlisted the support of Director Shriver and of Washington Attorney James H. Rowe Jr., a longtime Johnson friend. Wrote Rowe to Sargent Shriver, the corps' director: "If I were a young man, I think I would be content at the age of 26 to be the top assistant of the Vice President. But this boy Moyers is willing to give this up, without a backward look, so he can 'do good.' The world is full-and the Peace Corps will be-of people...
...letter clinched it. L.B.J. let him go, and Moyers was named one of five associate directors of the corps. His biggest job was selling the idea to Congress, and he went about it by selling Sarge Shriver. Using the Capitol Hill contacts he had developed as Johnson's aide, he and Shriver called on practically every member of Congress, thereby ensuring support for the corps where previously there had been mostly skepticism or indifference. At Shriver's urging, Kennedy 18 months later made Moyers deputy director...
...only major issue left on the Senate's agenda last week was, in a sense, a family affair-and the family was there in force to hear it out. In the galleries sat Ethel Kennedy in beige, Joan Kennedy in pink, Eunice Kennedy Shriver in purple. On the floor, New York's Senator Robert Kennedy had borrowed a colleague's seat for a better view of the action. The chamber was unusually still as Massachusetts' tall, blue-suited junior Senator rose to speak. "The question before the Senate," Edward Kennedy began, "is the confirmation...