Word: shrivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other vice-presidential heads bobbed up with alarming frequency. Bobby Kennedy, to hear the pollsters tell it, was the popular favorite. Then there was Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, Montana's Senator Mike Mansfield, Connecticut's Senator Thomas Dodd, and a score of others, including Humphrey's fellow Minnesota Senator, Eugene McCarthy...
Jacqueline Kennedy did not attend the convention itself, but she did spend half a day in Atlantic City. She arrived on the convention's final day, traveling on the Caroline along with the Kennedy sisters-Eunice Shriver, still weak from a kidney ailment, Jean Smith and Pat Lawford. Hundreds encircled her when she stepped out of a black Lincoln at the Deauville. Many in the crowd shouted: "Hi, Jackie!" Others, just seeing her, sobbed...
...better mousetrap? No, but some awfully cute mice: Maria Shriver, 8, Robert Kennedy Jr., 10, David Kennedy, 9, Courtney Kennedy, 7, Robert Shriver, 10, and Sydney Lawford, 7. They set up the roadside stand in Hyannis Port to sell postcards with pictures of their Jate uncle and other mementoes to raise funds for the Kennedy Memorial Library. The world beat a path to their door, and they raised $50 from the tourists the first day, but then the whole thing got out of hand, and traffic cops sent the youngsters scampering back to the family...
...convention any member of my Cabinet or any of those who meet regularly with the Cabinet." So saying, Lyndon not only ruled out Bobby Kennedy but also knocked off two other men whose partisans had been making Veep noises-Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Peace Corps Boss Sargent Shriver...
...approved by the Senate, the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, under the proposed aegis of Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, provides for a work-training program aimed at stemming the growing school-dropout population, a work-study program to help needy college students, a $340 million fund to aid localities in their own anti-poverty schemes, and money for rural-poverty loans and small-business loans. The only major Senate amendment was one introduced by Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers. It was a sort of concession to states' rights forces, and gave Governors the power to veto...