SHRIVER, ROBERT SARGENT

1915–, U.S. public official, b. Westminster, Md. A lawyer, he served in World War II and was (1945–46) an assistant editor of Newsweek magazine before joining the business enterprises of his future father-in-law, Joseph P. Kennedy. He participated in John F. Kennedy's successful presidential campaign, and in 1961 he was appointed the first director of the U.S. Peace Corps. An effective head of this organization, he was named (1964) director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) by President Lyndon B. Johnson and held both posts until 1966, when he resigned from the Peace Corps to devote himself to OEO. In 1968 he was appointed ambassador to France; he held that post until 1970. A Democrat, he became George McGovern's vice-presidential running mate in 1972, after Thomas Eagleton withdrew from the Democratic ticket. McGovern and Shriver were defeated.

See his Point of the Lance (1964); biography by R. A. Liston (1964).

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books on: Shriver Robert Sargent  - 189 results

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Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President
Book by Robert Dallek; Oxford University Press, 2004
Subjects: Johnson, Lyndon B--(Lyndon Baines)--1908-1973, Presidents--United States--Biography, United States--Politics And Government--1963-1969
...Morris, 19 , 44 Sherley, Swager, 42 Sherrod, Robert, 264 Shoreham, 22 Shriver, Sargent, 153 54, 174 75, 245 Sidey, Hugh, 222...267 , 298 , Syria, 283 , 284 , 285 Taft, Robert, 78 Taft-Hartley bill, 56 taxes: budget...
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Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973
Book by Robert Dallek; Oxford University Press, 1998
Subjects: Johnson, Lyndon B--(Lyndon Baines)--1908-1973, Presidents--United States--Biography, United States--Politics And Government--1961-1963, United States--Politics And Government--1963-1969, United States--Politics And Government--1969-1974
...482 Shapley, Deborah, 148 Sharp, Admiral U. S. Grant, 152 , 155 Shepard, Alan, 21 Sherrod, Robert, 23 , 378 -79 Shriver, Sargent, 89 , 332 , 333 ; and War on Poverty, 75 -79, 80 , 331 -32; and Peace Corps, 76 ; style of, 77...
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Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Uses of Power
Book by Bernard J. Firestone, Robert C. Vogt; Greenwood Press, 1988
Subjects: Johnson, Lyndon B--(Lyndon Baines)--1908-1973, United States--Politics And Government--1963-1969
...Hon. Eugene V. Rostow Hon. Robert C. Byrd Vernon E. Jordan...Anthony J. Celebrezze Hon. Robert W. Komer Hon. Sargent Shriver Hon. John Chancellor Mr. Arthur...Hon. Russell B. Long Hon. Robert S. Strauss Hon. Wilbur J...
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Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority
Book by Robert Mason; University of North Carolina Press, 2004
Subjects: Conservatism--United States--History--20th Century, Nixon, Richard M--(Richard Milhous)--1913-1994--Political And Social Views, Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--History--20th Century, United States--Politics And Government--1969-1974
...John P., 221 Semple, Robert, 62 Shafer, Raymond P., 143 Shriver, R. Sargent, Jr.,168,179 Shultz...ofEdu- cation, 146 Taft, Robert, Jr., 88, l02-3...Brotherhood of, 136 Teeter, Robert M.,191, 212; and Nixon...
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A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975
Book by Robert D. Schulzinger; Oxford University Press, 1997
Subjects: Indochinese War, 1946-1954, United States--Foreign Relations--Vietnam, Vietnam--Foreign Relations--United States, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975
...listed some important--and unusual--personalities as potential replacements for Lodge. Sargent Shriver, married to the sister of John and Robert Kennedy, whom Johnson had named to head the effort to eradicate poverty, was Bundys first...
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journal articles on: Shriver Robert Sargent  - 36 results

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Consumer Financial Literacy and the Impact of Online Banking on the Financial Behavior of Lower-Income Bank Customers
Journal article by Lisa J. Servon, Robert Kaestner; Journal of Consumer Affairs, Vol. 42, 2008
Subjects: Consumer behavior--Analysis, Consumer education--Analysis, Financial literacy--Analysis, Home banking services--Influence, Home banking--Influence
...Report. Chicago, IL: Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty...Research. Bond, Philip and Robert Townsend. 1996. Formal...81-93. Goldfield, Robert. 1998. Banking on the...newschool.edu). Robert Kaestner is a professor...
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Getting Agreement: How Bioethics Got Started
Journal article by Robert Baker; The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 35, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Story of Bioethics: From Seminal Works to Contemporary Explorations (Book)--Book reviews
Getting Agreement: How Bioethics Got Started. by Robert Baker The Story of Bioethics: From Seminal Works to...Catholic family, the Kennedys (specifically, Eunice and Sargent Shriver), at a Jesuit institution, Georgetown University...
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The Perils of Missionary Diplomacy: The United States Peace Corps Volunteers in the Republic of Ghana
Journal article by Julius A. Amin; The Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 23, 1999
Subjects: Ghana--Relations with the United States, United Nations. Peace Cooperation Corps--Foreign relations, United States--Relations with Ghana
...Ohio. (13.) Memorandum, Robert Sargent Shriver to the President, Weekly...Prepared for Delivery by Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. Director, Peace Corps...prepared for delivery by Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. Director, Peace Corps...
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A Study in Regulatory Method, Local Political Cultures, and Jurisprudential Voice: The Application of Federal Confidentiality Law to Project Head Start
Journal article by Richard C. Boldt; Michigan Law Review, Vol. 93, 1995
Subjects: Law, Law Reviews--Michigan
...manuscript)). 115 See Shriver, supra note 86, at 55...Johnson. See id . 117 See Shriver, supra note 86, at 55...contained in a memo from Dr. Robert Cooke, chair of the Planning Committee, to Sargent Shriver, the head of OEO. This...
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Accidental Presidents: Death, Assassination, Resignation, and Democratic Succession
Journal article by Philip Abbott; Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 35, 2005
Subjects: Political succession--Analysis, President of the United States--Political activity, United States--Political aspects, Vice presidents (Government)--Political activity
...this time there would be Robert Kennedy out in front...1964. The selection of Robert Kennedy as vice president...convention another Kennedy (Sargent Shriver, Ted Kennedy) or a prominent JFK appointee (Robert McNamara). Some aides...
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magazine articles on: Shriver Robert Sargent  - 43 results

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"Knifed": In 1968 the Kennedy Family Essentially Blackballed a Brother-in-Law, Sargent Shriver, Who Was Very Close to Being Chosen as Hubert Humphrey's Running Mate. in Doing So, They May Have Accidentally Thrown the Election to Richard Nixon
Magazine article by Scott Stossel; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 293, May 2004
Subjects: Kennedy, Edward M., Nixon, Richard M., Politics--Analysis, Politics--History, Presidential elections--Analysis, Presidential elections--History, Shriver, Sargent
...Blackballed a Brother-in-Law, Sargent Shriver, Who Was Very Close to Being...selection. In the spring of 1968 Sargent Shriver--the founding director of the...a brother-in-law of John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy--was appointed...
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Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver
Magazine article by C. John Mccloskey; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, May 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver (Biography)--Book reviews
...SARGE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SARGENT SHRIVER. By SCOTT STOSSEL. Smithsonian...happened if Lyndon Johnson had chosen Sargent Shriver, rather than Hubert Humphrey...very different. Sarges father, Robert Shriver, was a Republican Protestant...
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Two Catholics in the Public Square
Magazine article by David O'Brien; Commonweal, Vol. 131, July 16, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Inside: A Public and Private Life (Book)--Book reviews, Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver (Book)
...Sarge The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver Scott Stossel Smithsonian Books...among them Joseph Califano and Sargent Shriver. Along with assorted urban mayors...Then he became a top aide to Robert McNamara until Lyndon Johnson...
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Tilting at Windmills
Magazine article by Charles Peters; Washington Monthly, Vol. 43, March 2011
Subjects: Federal officials--Appreciation, Federal officials--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Funerals, Kerry, John F.--Appreciation, Kerry, John F.--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Kerry, John F.--Speeches, lectures and essays, Novello, Angela--Appreciation, Novello, Angela--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Presidential inaugurations--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Presidential messages--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Presidents--Inauguration, Presidents--Messages, Presidents--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Private secretaries--Appreciation, Private secretaries--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Shriver, Sargent--Appreciation, Shriver, Sargent--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations
...On the 22nd I attended Sargent Shrivers funeral at a...Spring. Angie had been Robert Kennedys secretary before...the seven years when Robert Kennedy was one of the...The man could lead Sargent Shriver stands alone among government...
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The New Work Begins at Home; the Peace Corps at 25
Magazine article by Harris Wofford; The Nation, Vol. 241, November 30, 1985
Subjects: Kennedy, John F.--International relations, Peace Corps Act of 1961--Management, Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Washington--Management, Shriver, Sargent--Management, United States. Central Intelligence Agency--Recruiting, United States. Congress--International relations, United States. Peace Corps--History, presidents--International relations
...assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther...overseas after hearing Robert Kennedy speak about Africa...the first director, Sargent Shirver. The focus fo...of persuasion by which Shriver convinced Congress to...deputy, Bill Moyers, Shriver overwhelmed those in...
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newspaper articles on: Shriver Robert Sargent  - 35 results

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Shriver: It's a 'Painful and Heartbreaking Time'
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, May 18, 2011
Subjects: Schwarzenegger, Arnold, Shriver, Maria
...Californias first lady. Shriver never moved to Sacramento...high-profile attendees. Shriver, daughter of Sargent and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, met the former Mr. Universe in 1977 at the Robert F. Kennedy Pro-Celebrity...
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Founder of Special Olympics, Dies at Age 88; Was Longtime Advocate for Mentally Disabled
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), August 12, 2009
Subjects: Kennedy, John F.
...Obama said Mrs. Shriver will be remembered...prayers are with Sargent, their children Robert, Maria, Timothy...children: Maria Shriver; Robert, a city council...Eunice Kennedy Shriver cheers on athletes...and husband, Sargent Shriver, a former...
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D.C. Alliance to Honor Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), September 3, 2009
...with a goal of at least 1,000. Shriver, a sister of President John F...in attendance at SneakerBall. Shriver was inspired to found the Special...renamed in her honor. Her husband, Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., helped form the Peace Corps...
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Eunice Shriver; OBITUARY
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), August 13, 2009
...worker and activist, Ms Shriver was credited with transforming...disabled sister, Rosemary. Shriver was also the sister of Senator Robert F Kennedy, the wife of 1972...former Peace Corps director R Sargent Shriver, and the mother of former...
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'Governator' the Talk of the Ball
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 6, 2003
Subjects: De Niro, Robert, Schwarzenegger, Arnold, Shriver, Eunice Mary Kennedy, Shriver, Maria
...Democratic Kennedy-Shriver clan Saturday night...Potomac estate of Sargent and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, buzzed with talk...controversial campaign. Even Robert De Niros appearance...Buddies founder Anthony Shriver and actor Robert De Niro discussed...
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encyclopedia articles on: Shriver Robert Sargent  - 2 results

 
 
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Shriver, Robert Sargent
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SHRIVER, ROBERT SARGENT 1915 , U.S. public official, b. Westminster, Md. A lawyer...Thomas Eagleton withdrew from the Democratic ticket. McGovern and Shriver were defeated. See his Point of the Lance (1964); biography by...
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Mcgovern, George Stanley
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...unsuccessfully to rally the antiwar supporters of the late Robert F. Kennedy . In 1971 McGovern announced his candidacy...support for his running mate and then dropped him for Sargent Shriver , plus Republican charges of radicalism, contributed...


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