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Eunice Shriver: Transformative, on her own terms
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who died yesterday at 88, proved that a person doesn't have to be president - or senator, or attorney general - to be transformative. Her role in advancing the prospects of people with disabilities went well beyond the Special Olympics, her signature initiative. She began talking about the possibilities of people with disabilities in the 1960s, when many believed that people with mental retardation weren't even fit to live with their families.
Eunice Shriver: Transformative, on her own terms
Eunice Shriver: Transformative, on her own terms
August 12, 2009
Joseph P. Kennedy, the American dreamer who created his own dynasty, demanded that his four sons make an impact in the world. Eunice, Joe's third daughter, was limited by her gender. Her father once lamented, in memorably salty language, that if Eunice were a boy she'd be president.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who died yesterday at 88, proved that a person doesn't have to be president - or senator, or attorney general - to be transformative. Her role in advancing the prospects of people with disabilities went well beyond the Special Olympics, her signature initiative. She began talking about the possibilities of people with disabilities in the 1960s, when many believed that people with mental retardation weren't even fit to live with their families.
The explosion of human potential since then - visible everywhere from community group homes, where adults with disabilities live independently, to businesses where they perform tasks unheard-of four decades ago - is her legacy. Shriver's achievements often register as a footnote to the larger Kennedy drama. This doesn't do her justice. In a family where glory was a compound measured in equal parts politics and testosterone, Eunice blazed a shining path of her own. Her father would be abashed, but proud.
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