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...this marks a worrisome trend. Just as Harvard dominated the first eight elections, Yale has dominated the last eight. Yale candidates have run on a major party ticket in every race for the past three decades, starting with a lone vice-presidential candidate in 1972, R. Sargent Shriver, and grew into a juggernaut with Joseph I. Lieberman, Bush, and Dick Cheney...
...Wrinkles in Shriver's Marriage to NBC News - The New York Times reports that people at NBC News and at other networks questioned whether Schwarzenegger's wife, Maria Shriver, should cover political topics
...show is becoming themeless and error prone. "They're flubbing this thing big time," says a longtime G.O.P. strategist. Former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan, who decided not to enter the race when Schwarzenegger got in, has urged him to be more open with the media. Even wife Maria Shriver has complained to a friend that her husband is being overmanaged and overprotected by his advisers, many of whom he inherited from unpopular former Governor Pete Wilson. Schwarzenegger is said to be working 18-hour days, boning up on issues, but little of that time is spent in public view...
Another group of friends is drawn from family, like his nephew Patrick Knapp, a lawyer, and Bobby Shriver, his wife's brother, who is a political activist and movie producer. Friends say the Kennedy-Shriver clan has softened the edges of Schwarzenegger's politics from the time he came into their orbit in the late 1970s. "Arnold was quite right wing when I first met him in 1972," says Butler. "Maria has moderated that quite...
...whether that was a step Arnold's father took gladly, in America we don't visit the sins of the father onto the children. All the same, Arnold did not always take care to avoid those associations himself. One of the guests he invited to his 1986 wedding to Shriver was Austrian presidential candidate Kurt Waldheim. At the time Waldheim was revealed to have been a former Nazi Party member. But Schwarzenegger has tried to neutralize that question many times over. In the past decade he raised millions for the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles and the center...