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  • /1966 [NAID 5719307] http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/personal PERSONAL PAPERS OF R. SARGENT SHRIVER Creator: Shriver, Sargent, 1915-2011 Biographical sketch: Robert Sargent Shriver, brother-in-law of John F. Kennedy, was a lawyer, businessman
  • of Education. Therefore when Kennedy started the Peace Corps it wasn't surprising--to me-that he would ask somebody like me to take an interest in it. G: Sure. The material about you also mentions your working with juvenile delinquency, largely through your
  • ; how the War on Poverty came to include more than Community Action; an Rowland Evans and Robert Novak column in the Washington Post indicating that Shriver might be LBJ’s 1964 vice presidential running mate and reaction of the Kennedy faction
  • this myself. Obviously I didn't have enough experience to do it singlehandedly. So I talked to the head of the scientific advisory committee of the Kennedy Foundation, a great pediatrician named Dr. Robert Cooke. I said to him, "What about this?" And he said
  • magnitude than the ones I was dealing with and that his time and energy should be reserved for those problems, and the best thing that a bureaucrat can do is to try and solve the problems without bothering the president. I never bothered Kennedy or Johnson