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...complicate matters, an intense power struggle divides his staff. A conservative faction of aides, including Schwarzenegger's chief of staff, is at war with a liberal one led by Arnold's wife Maria Shriver, who has taken a newly aggressive role in trying to burnish his image. "Nobody really knows who is in charge," says Allan Hoffenblum, a Republican strategist in Los Angeles. "His followers want to rally around the flag, but they can't find the flagpole." The Governor's spokesman, Rob Stutzman, says the press has been "mischaracterizing robust discussion as a split...
...Kennedy clan to the Oval Office. Rose Kennedy could not attend, and Reagan asked Ted to bring his mother around when she was able. Kennedy did, and the three of them talked for 45 minutes in the midst of a crowded presidential day. Reagan later awarded Eunice Kennedy Shriver the Medal of Freedom for her work with the mentally retarded and reappointed Jean Kennedy Smith to the Kennedy Center's board of trustees. A couple of times in recent years Kennedy and Reagan sat side by side at St. Patrick's Day lunches and swapped political and family stories. Reagan...
...three network breakfast programs but the one that presented the most substantive news. To boost ratings, Sauter approved the hiring of Phyllis George, the former Miss America whose flubs finally led to her ouster in August. Though the program now is steered by the competent Forrest Sawyer and Maria Shriver, it is a pale imitation of Today and Good Morning America and still runs a miserable third...
...father Joseph Kennedy, afraid of a scandal that could damage the family's reputation, arranged for her to have a lobotomy. The operation reduced her to an infantlike state, and she spent most of the rest of her life in an institution. In 1968 her younger sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, created the Special Olympics in her honor...
Bush 41 had Maria Shriver beside him when her husband Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger launched his zinger about "economic girly men." The ex-President loved it but restrained his urge to jump up or shout because it had to be tough for Shriver, a member of the Kennedy clan, who was just at the Democratic Convention. He scurried around and got a couple of ARNOLD signs for her young kids...