R. Sargent Shriver




Peace Corps Giant

• 2008.06.30: June 30, 2008: Headlines: NGO's: Service: children: Marketwire: Mark Shriver Elected to Chair National Commission on Children and Disasters  July 13 - 10:23 pm [1]

• 2008.05.01: May 1, 2008: Headlines: Friends: Maria Shriver: Sargent Shriver: Sacramento Bee: Maria Shriver writes "Just Who Will You Be? Big Question. Little Book. Answer Within"  July 13 - 10:23 pm [1]

• 2008.03.21: March 21, 2008: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Figures: Directors: Service: Fund Raising: Palm Beach Post : Sargent Shriver at fund Raiser for Best buddies  April 28 - 10:58 am [1]

• 2008.03.31: March 31, 2008: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Figures: Directors: Sports: Baseball: Washington Post: Timothy Shriver writes: When I think of Opening Day, I can’t help but think of my 92-year-old Dad  April 28 - 10:57 am [1]

• 2008.03.26: March 26, 2008: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Special Olympics: Miami Herald: Eunice Kennedy Shriver is recovering at UM Hospital  April 27 - 9:01 pm [1]

• 2008.01.15: January 15, 2008: Headlines: Documentaries: Directors - Shriver: Figures: Directors: Newsblaze: American Idealist, The Story of Sargent Shriver  February 15 - 8:19 am [10]

• 2008.01.02: January 2, 2008: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Figures: Directors: Documentaries: Boston Globe: "American Idealist,"" to screen at JFK Library  January 12 - 1:13 pm [2]

• 1961.10.13: October 13, 1961: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Figures: Directors: Daily Globe: Ray Crippen writes: Sargent Shriver speaks to the crowd at the National Corn Picking Contest at Worthington, MN, Oct. 13, 1961  December 26 - 7:40 am [1]

• 2007.08.19: August 19, 2007: Headlines: Shriver: History: Election1972: Columbia Tribune: Eagleton was source for "Amnesty, Abortion and Acid" quote September 22 - 11:15 am [3]

• 2007.05.19: May 19, 2007: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Figures: Directors: Diplomacy: North County Times: John Van Doorn writes: Sargent Shriver was full of energy and fire, and was a close and important adviser to President Kennedy  May 29 - 9:24 am [1]

• 2007.03.05: March 5, 2007: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: History: The Washington Post: Thomas Eagleton: 1929-2007  May 09 - 9:55 am [1]

• 2006.12.29: December 29, 2006: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Figures: Directors: History: America First: Greatest Generation: Newsday: Gerald Ford and Sargent Shriver helped establish the "America First Committee" while students at Yale Law School in 1940  March 04 - 1:18 pm [1]

• 2007.02.09: February 9, 2007: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Documentaries: Shriver Center: Maryland Returned Volunteers to screen "American Idealist" at UMBC on March 3  February 23 - 2:24 pm [2]

• 2007.01.27: January 27, 2007: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Iraq: Speaking Out: the Tidings: Douglas W. Kmiec writes: In 2003 Eunice and Sargent Shriver made a special point of complimenting me for presenting the case for intervention in Iraq -- a point of pride then and of embarrassment now  February 02 - 9:31 am [1]

• 2006.11.08: November 8, 2006: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Yahoo: Eunice Kennedy Shriver with son-in-law Arnold Schwarzenegger on election night November 08 - 2:12 am [1]

• 2006.10.08: October 8, 2006: Headlines: Obituaries: Directors - Shriver: The Indianapolis Star: The Man who turned down Shriver  October 09 - 9:56 am [1]

• 2004.10.15: October 15, 2004: Headlines: Peace Corps Directors - Shriver: Politics: Election2004 - Shriver: Boston Globe: Bobby Shriver takes family activism to California  September 16 - 9:07 am [1]

• 1972.11.03: November 3, 1972: Headlines: Election1972 - Shriver: Peace Corps Directors - Shriver: Ebay: Returned Peace Corps worker pin made to back the McGovern-Shriver ticket in 1972  September 16 - 9:05 am [1]

• 2006.07.24: July 24, 2006: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Bay Area Indymedia: Though the name Sargent Shriver is now unfamiliar to most people under the age of 45, it would not be an exaggeration to say that he may have done more for poor people through his work at the federal level than any other single government official in United States history  July 28 - 7:50 am [1]

• 2006.07.11: July 11, 2006: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: NGOs: Special Olympics: Washington Post: Eunice Kennedy Shriver gets the black-tie White House dinner treatment -- specifically for the creation of Special Olympics -- on the occasion of her 85th birthday  July 20 - 7:29 am [1]

• 2006.07.08: July 8, 2006: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: NGOs: Special Olympics: Washington Post: Colman McCarthy writes: Eunice Shriver's Endless Gifts  August 22 - 7:47 am [3]

• 2006.03.28: March 28, 2006: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Business Gazette: A refurbished Wheaton elementary school that will reopen in the fall will be called R. Sargent Shriver Elementary School  July 07 - 11:26 am [1]

• 1961.09.04: September 4, 1961: Headlines: Congress: Appropriations: Directors - Shriver: ebay: An original signed September 4, 1961 Peace Corps letter signed by Sargent Shriver and addressed to US Congressman William Natcher  June 10 - 11:02 am [1]

• 2006.03.01: March 1, 2006: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: American Heritage: Senator Harris Wofford, a onetime Shriver aide, has described him as “not a tidy administrator, but . . . a great executive.”  March 21 - 12:51 pm [1]

• 2006.02.07: February 7, 2006: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Civil Rights: Presidents - Kennedy: Time Magazine: Kennedy's brother in law, Sargent Shriver, got him alone in a room and urged the candidate to just pick up the phone and call Coretta Scott King to tell her of his concern and offer to help in any way he could  March 21 - 12:49 pm [1]

• January 30, 2006: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Movies: Documentaries: History: Daughters of Charity Health System: A new documentary, "American Idealist: The Life & Legacy of Sargent Shriver," to be screened at Los Angeles conference February 02 - 9:36 am [1]

• January 17, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Politics: San Francisco Chronicle: Schwarzenegger recalls his relationship with his father-in-law, Sargent Shriver -- a former Democratic vice presidential candidate -- while extolling equal opportunity in California's public schools  February 02 - 9:33 am [1]

• December 26, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Special Olympics: Washington Post: Tim Shriver is counting on the movie "The Ringer" to accelerate acceptance and understanding of people with intellectual disabilities  December 30 - 11:44 am [1]

• December 12, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Boston Globe: Sargent Shriver honored at Kennedy Library  December 13 - 9:40 am [4]

• November 1, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: People Magazine: Eunice Kennedy Shriver Suffers Stroke  December 05 - 9:35 pm [1]

• April 1, 2005: Headlines: Coyne Column: Writers: COS - Ethiopia: Directors - Shriver: PCOL Exclusive: Call for Stories: And Then Sarge Said to Me  December 05 - 9:26 pm [1]

• October 17, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Washington Times: Shrivers rally for 'Buddies' October 20 - 9:15 am [1]

• September 15, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Poverty: Hunger: San Francisco Chronicle: I am trying to keep in mind a story I read about Sargent Shriver visiting Pope Paul VI in the mid-1960s  October 07 - 12:15 pm [1]

• September 19, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: KTLA: Schwarzenegger recalls ties to Shriver  October 04 - 1:50 pm [1]

• August 9, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: U.S. Newswire: Mark Shriver will also give the keynote speech, which will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Foster Grandparent Program, started by his father, Sargent Shriver  September 04 - 1:35 pm [2]

• July 25, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Service: Indiana Daily Student: Anthony Shriver's 'Best Buddies' program helps adults with intellectual disabilities develop often overlooked social skills  July 30 - 10:31 pm [1]

• July 2, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Service: Music: Fund Raising: LA Times: Bobby Shriver helps organize Philadelphia Live 8 show  July 02 - 2:40 pm [1]

• June 8, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Santa Monica Mirror: The Power of One: Bobby Shriver has worked as a journalist, produced an album that has raised $60 million for Special Olympics and co-founded Debt, AIDS, Trade in Africa (DATA) with U2’s Bono in 2002  June 12 - 4:07 pm [1]

• May 13, 2005: Headlines: Figures: Directors - Shriver: Job Corps: Ayer Public Spirit: The 40th Anniversary of Shriver's Job Corps  May 28 - 6:49 pm [1]

• May 9, 2005: Headlines: Friends: NY Post: It was Camelot on the West Coast as the Kennedy clan converged in Los Angeles for the wedding of Bobby Shriver, the nephew of JFK and brother of California First Lady Maria Shriver.  May 25 - 5:51 pm [1]

• May 21, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: NGO's: Boston Globe: The Hyannisport Challenge, founded by TONY SHRIVER -- EUNICE and Sargent's son -- benefits Best Buddies, an organization that helps developmentally disabled youth  May 25 - 5:34 pm [1]

• May 17, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: US Newswire: Mark Shriver to Discuss Rural Poverty's Impact on Children in U.S. at Save the Children Event on May 24  May 25 - 5:32 pm [1]

• April 4, 2005: Headlines: Figures: Directors - Shriver: Presidents - Nixon: Election1968: The Guardian: Jane Fonda says: When it was announced that Humphrey (who had not come out in opposition to the war) had won the nomination, Ambassador Sargent Shriver said, "They just put Richard Nixon in the White House."  April 09 - 11:49 pm [1]

• March 31, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: New York Times: Maria Shriver Builds a Different Role as California's First Lady  April 02 - 10:31 pm [1]

• March 22, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Libraries: Kennedy Library: An Inventory of Sargent Shriver's Personal Papers 1948-1976 in the John F. Kennedy Library  February 25 - 5:16 am [3]

• March 12, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Love: Centre Daily: There are other expressions of love and one that is very meaningful to us was written by Sargent Shriver, who said, "The most important thing I know about living is love. Nothing surpasses the benefits received by a human being who makes compassion and love the objective of his or her life. For it is only by compassion and love that anyone fulfills successfully their own life's journey.  March 13 - 1:18 am [1]

• March 2, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Washington Times: Sargent Shriver still on Washington's A-list  March 04 - 11:37 pm [1]

• February 27, 2005: Headlines: COS - Peru: Writing - Peru: Journalism: History: Directors - Shriver: Amazon: Peru RPCV Hugh Pickens reviews "Come as you are" by Coates Redmon, the Chronicler of the early Peace Corps  March 04 - 10:11 pm [1]

• February 24, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Free New Mexican: The most surreal political event I attended that year — not counting the war demonstrations — was an Albuquerque airport rally for Democratic vice presidential candidate Sargent Shriver  February 26 - 7:07 pm [1]

• February 26, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Boston Phoenix: Hunter Thompson saw McGovern’s decision to replace Eagleton with Sargent Shriver as patriotic rather than politically craven  February 26 - 7:06 pm [1]

• February 17, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Athens News: Shriver grabbed the receiver, and said, 'Vern, for heaven's sake, don't you know you're talking to the president of the United States? Get your ass back here!' Needless to say, I cancelled my beach plans, and left for Washington.  February 18 - 9:45 pm [1]

• February 1, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Libraries: History: Presidents - Kennedy: JFK Library: JFK Presidential Library Opens Sargent Shriver Collection  February 16 - 9:03 am [1]

• February 6, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: City Government: LA Times: Bobby Shriver Goes to Santa Monica  February 12 - 1:59 pm [1]

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• Directors - Shriver: Anthony Kennedy Shriver has his eye on Tallahassee 20 January 2005

When this story was posted in January 2005, this was on the front page of PCOL:

Ask Not As our country prepares for the inauguration of a President, we remember one of the greatest speeches of the 20th century and how his words inspired us. "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."

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January 15, 2005: This Week's Top Stories Bellamy finishing term - Veneman to head Unicef 15 Jan 230 RPCVs volunteer for Crisis Corps 14 Jan Peace Corps Fund needs silent auction items 12 Jan Matt Gould in one-man Peace Corps show in Hollywood 12 Jan Taylor Hackford's "Ray" Nominated for Golden Globe 12 Jan Ambassador Johnson shares memories of Thailand 11 Jan Senator Dodd suggests PC return to Venezuela 11 Jan Ambassador Hull wants PC to return to Sierra Leone 11 Jan Poiriers unhappy with PC investigation of missing son 10 Jan Emile Hons reflects on the Deborah Gardner murder case 10 Jan Judge Paul A. Bastine criticized for stalling Divorce 6 Jan Volunteer Patricia D. Scatoloni dies in Macedonia 4 Jan more top stories...

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Coleman: Peace Corps mission and expansion Senator Norm Coleman, Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee that oversees the Peace Corps, says in an op-ed, A chance to show the world America at its best: "Even as that worthy agency mobilizes a "Crisis Corps" of former Peace Corps volunteers to assist with tsunami relief, I believe an opportunity exists to rededicate ourselves to the mission of the Peace Corps and its expansion to touch more and more lives."

RPCVs active in new session of Congress In the new session of Congress that begins this week, RPCV Congressman Tom Petri has a proposal to bolster Social Security, Sam Farr supported the objection to the Electoral College count, James Walsh has asked for a waiver to continue heading a powerful Appropriations subcommittee, Chris Shays will no longer be vice chairman of the Budget Committee, and Mike Honda spoke on the floor honoring late Congressman Robert Matsui.

Latest: RPCVs and Peace Corps provide aid Peace Corps made an appeal last week to all Thailand RPCV's to consider serving again through the Crisis Corps and more than 30 RPCVs have responded so far. RPCVs: Read what an RPCV-led NGO is doing about the crisis an how one RPCV is headed for Sri Lanka to help a nation he grew to love. Question: Is Crisis Corps going to send RPCVs to India, Indonesia and nine other countries that need help?

The World's Broken Promise to our Children Former Director Carol Bellamy, now head of Unicef, says that the appalling conditions endured today by half the world's children speak to a broken promise. Too many governments are doing worse than neglecting children -- they are making deliberate, informed choices that hurt children. Read her op-ed and Unicef's report on the State of the World's Children 2005.

Changing of the Guard With Lloyd Pierson's departure, Marie Wheat has been named acting Chief of Staff and Chief of Operations responsible for the day-to-day management of the Peace Corps. Although Wheat is not an RPCV and has limited overseas experience, in her two years at the agency she has come to be respected as someone with good political skills who listens and delegates authority and we wish her the best in her new position.

Our debt to Bill Moyers Former Peace Corps Deputy Director Bill Moyers leaves PBS next week to begin writing his memoir of Lyndon Baines Johnson. Read what Moyers says about journalism under fire, the value of a free press, and the yearning for democracy. "We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country," he warns, "or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia."

RPCV safe after Terrorist Attack RPCV Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, the U.S. consul general in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia survived Monday's attack on the consulate without injury. Five consular employees and four others were killed. Abercrombie-Winstanley, the first woman to hold the position, has been an outspoken advocate of rights for Arab women and has met with Saudi reformers despite efforts by Saudi leaders to block the discussions.

Is Gaddi Leaving? Rumors are swirling that Peace Corps Director Vasquez may be leaving the administration. We think Director Vasquez has been doing a good job and if he decides to stay to the end of the administration, he could possibly have the same sort of impact as a Loret Ruppe Miller. If Vasquez has decided to leave, then Bob Taft, Peter McPherson, Chris Shays, or Jody Olsen would be good candidates to run the agency. Latest: For the record, Peace Corps has no comment on the rumors.

The Birth of the Peace Corps UMBC's Shriver Center and the Maryland Returned Volunteers hosted Scott Stossel, biographer of Sargent Shriver, who spoke on the Birth of the Peace Corps. This is the second annual Peace Corps History series - last year's speaker was Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn.

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