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Born. To R. Sargent Shriver Jr., 48, Peace Corps director, and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 41: their fourth child, third son; in Washington...
...when Heller told Johnson that he had been assigned by Kennedy to draw up an anti-poverty program, Lyndon agreed that it was a good idea. It is especially a good idea for politicians in an election year too. Only last week the President named Peace Corps Chief Sargent Shriver to head up the Administration's anti-poverty campaign...
Last week President Johnson seemed to be sending up a trial balloon for Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver. He had asked Shriver, off on a Peace Corps inspection trip, to deliver personal, confidential messages from the President to Pope Paul VI in the Holy Land, to Jordan's King Hussein, and to Israel's Premier Levi Eshkol...
This demonstration of trust set Washington's Veep watchers to beeping. Johnson unquestionably thinks well of Shriver. When he was Vice President, he once sent Shriver a praise-filled letter which ended: "The Peace Corps job is being not only well done, but extremely well done." Moreover, Shriver is only 48, a Catholic, a liberal, has a Midwestern background-and is married to Jack Kennedy's sister Eunice...
...Shriver did no better than fifth in a recent vice-presidential poll among the nation's Democratic county chairmen, and that apparently wasn't good enough for Johnson. So last week, to a surprised group of women reporters at a White House reception, he said apropos of nothing in particular: "I regard Sargent Shriver as one of the most brilliant, most able and most competent officials in government. I regard him as one of my real confidants." And that sent the Shriver balloon soaring up into the stratosphere...