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...seasoned Washington commentator said recently that "if I had to bet more money than I can afford to lose, I would bet on Sargent Shriver for the nomination." He listed three reasons for his choice. First, he said that President Johnson wants to retain the loyalty and active support of the Kennedy family and of Democratic politicians throughout the country who still feel a deep allegiance to the late President. Johnson does not want, the commentator said, to put Robert Kennedy on the ticket. Therefore Shriver, who helped construct the Kennedy machine in 1960 and has good personal relations with...
Second, he said that Johnson appreciates Shriver's background in business, a background which would season him for the tough political maneuvering in which Johnson revels. As Murray Kempton recently put it in The New Republic, Shriver was the only man Joseph Kennedy trused to collect his rents at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago...
...skillful skier. On snow for the first time, Jacqueline Kennedy found that there's many a slip 'twixt slope and slalom. At Stowe, Vt., with Fellow Tyro Caroline and a watching clutch of Kennedys (John-John, Bobby and his family, Teddy and his wife, and Eunice Shriver), Duffer Jackie took her tumbles in good form. Her instructor, former Olympic Ski Coach Pepi Gabl, said diplomatically: "She was very good, but it's hard to say about a skier's ability the first time...
...would be responsible for various aspects of the program insisted last week that the whole scattershot package could be properly administered without creating any wasteful new bureaucracy. Each was satisfied with the role assigned to his department, none resented the vast powers that would be handed to "Poverty Czar" Shriver. If the Administration can ever convince the Congress of that, the poverty war itself may prove to be a pushover by comparison...
...Secret season so far as the identity of the next Democratic vice-presidential nominee is concerned. The President's got the secret, and he won't tell-yet. Bobby Kennedy's name is up. So is Hubert Humphrey's. And Sargent Shriver's. And now McNamara...