Word: shrivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like any normal, healthy Kennedy kinsman, the President's brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, has political ambitions. Having successfully launched the Peace Corps, Shriver would like to go onward and upward to elective office in Illinois...
...idea draws a lot of opposition just because it's new; the original Peace Corps bill would not have passed except for Sargent Shriver's lobbying. The administration can't afford to arouse any unnecessary confusion or resentment," he said...
Goodwin's position became untenable. But the President's brother-in-law, Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, rescued him. He first "borrowed" Goodwin to plan a 43-nation conference on Peace Corps manpower problems. After the conference, Goodwin lingered at the Peace Corps. Finally, his nameplate was removed from his State Department office. His new, "permanent" Peace Corps post: Director of the International Secretariat for Peace Corps Development-a lofty title for the fuzzy job of trying to get other nations to create their own Peace Corps...
...letter that, without undercutting Bartlett and Alsop, expressed "regret at the unfortunate stir" and "fullest confidence" in Stevenson. Toward week's end, while introducing the President at a Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation dinner, Master of Ceremonies Stevenson joked about the whole flap. Introducing Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver as an "instant peace" salesman so successful that "he makes the United Nations cry for it," Stevenson quipped: "As for me. I've been crying for it for the past week." Adlai quoted Joseph Pulitzer's observation, "Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady...
Andrew T. Hatcher, associate Presidential press secretary, announced shortly after 11 a.m. that the President had canceled plans to attend the Harvard-Yale clash because of "threatening weather." Robert F. Kennedy and Sargent Shriver, however, appeared in the Presidential section at Soldiers Field...