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...French doors leading to President Kennedy's office. The girls were bright in their flowered summer dresses, the men were turned out in their Sunday best, and everyone was smiling and chatting amiably -sometimes in Swahili and Twi. Inside, the President and his brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, looked for all the world like fathers of the bride as they greeted each of the young guests. The occasion was a farewell party for 80 young volunteers (average age: 25) bound for teaching and road-building jobs in Ghana and Tanganyika. They had just completed two months of intensive training...
Underlying the gaiety was a note of anxiety. Kennedy and Shriver were painfully aware of the criticism, both at home and abroad, that already surrounded the youthful missionaries of democracy. Communist propagandists had been hard at work for months, denigrating the Peace Corps. Some home-grown critics were just as harsh. "The thing is so disproportionate as to be nonsensical," editorialized the Wall Street Journal. "What person, except perhaps the very young themselves, can really believe that an Africa aflame with violence will have its fires quenched because some Harvard boy or Vassar girl lives...
...reputation as a prime vote getter-presumably on a national scale-was correspondingly enhanced. And so, in late February 1959, Jack Kennedy called a special presidential strategy session at his father's Palm Beach home. Present were Brothers Bobby and Teddy Kennedy, Brothers-in-Law Sarge Shriver and Steve Smith, Adviser Ted Sorensen-and Larry O'Brien. In this first formal planning for a Kennedy effort to reach the White House, O'Brien was assigned the job of establishing Kennedy organizations throughout...
...Kennedy grandchildren, the best places at Hyannisport are the tennis court, the dock and the newest social center, the trampoline. The mothers-Jackie, Ethel, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Pat Kennedy Lawford and Jean Kennedy Smith-have divided the children into two groups to avoid confusion and to make swimming, riding and sailing lessons easier: Group I includes the children in the six-to-nine age bracket: Group II. those aged five and under. A master chart details where which children are supposed to go on which days at what time. Despite her youth, Caroline Kennedy has one advantage over...
Contemporary Jungle. Only ultramodern Kennedy home is Sargent and Eunice Kennedy Shriver's duplex in Chicago's Lincoln Park section. Much of the furniture was designed by Denmark's Finn Juhl and the U.S.'s Eero Saarinen; the living room is a jungle gym of iron chair frames and brass lamp poles, set off by modern paintings by Josef Albers and Hugo Weber. The paneled library with its early 19th century English desk is the only noncontemporary room in the apartment. "I didn't want to make the library modern," says Eunice Shriver, "because...