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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Robert Sargent Shriver   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Shriver was U.S. ambassador to France from 1968 to 1970.
Shriver is a descendant of David Shriver, who signed the Maryland Constitution and Bill of Rights at Maryland's Constitutional Convention of 1776.
Sargent, Nebraska Sargent is a city located in 2000 census, the city had a total population of 649.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Sargent Shriver   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Robert Sargent Shriver III (born April 28, 1954), nicknamed Bobby Shriver, is a graduate of Yale College, where he became a member of Scroll and Key, and is a Yale Law School graduate and former part-owner of Baltimore Orioles.
A son of Maryland and a longtime advocate for the poor and the powerless, Robert Sargent Shriver Jr.
The Shriver Center at UMBC, named in honor of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver, was created in December 1993, with the mission of mobilizing the talents and resources of higher education to confront and solve the problems facing urban America today.
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In June 1963, Shriver started a summer day camp for children and adults with intellectual disabilities at her home in Maryland to explore their capabilities in a variety of sports and physical activities.
Shriver remains a member of the Special Olympics Board of Directors and continues to lend her well-earned reputation as a visionary leader in improving the lives of people with intellectual disabilities to furthering the mission and expansion of the Movement.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver is married to Sargent Shriver, Chairman of the Board Emeritus of Special Olympics; former Director of the Peace Corps and the Office of Economic Opportunity; and former U.S. ambassador to France.
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  Robert Sargent Shriver III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Sargent Shriver III (born April 28, 1954), nicknamed Bobby Shriver, is a graduate of Yale College, where he became a member of Scroll and Key, and is a Yale Law School graduate and former part-owner of Baltimore Orioles.
His mother is Eunice Mary Kennedy and his father is (Robert) Sargent Shriver, Jr.
A resident of Santa Monica, California, Shriver is an attorney and President of RSS Inc., a Beverly Hills music, film and philanthrophic company.
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 Bobby Shriver | Data.org - Debt AIDS Trade Africa
Robert Sargent Shriver III was born on April 28, 1954 in Chicago.
He is the oldest child of R. Sargent Shriver, the first director of the Peace Corps and leader of the War on Poverty programs of the 1960s, and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics.
Shriver is also a Director of The Crossroads at Antigua Foundation, and Chairman of the California State Parks and Recreation Commission.
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 Eunice Kennedy Shriver Summary
Shriver was one of nine children born to Rose and Joseph Kennedy on July 10, 1920, in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Shriver invited the District's representatives to Washington, where she told them that she approved their plan, but wanted to expand it to an international competition that would be called the "Special Olympics." The Foundation awarded the Chicago Park District a grant to develop and run the first Special Olympics Games.
Shriver's son, Tim, told Rainie and Quinn, "The best way to describe it is that you are expected to push, push, push, and do your best." As he told interviewer Oprah Winfrey, "Special Olympics is about...saying it's not what you're born with but what you bring to the table.
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 EuniceKennedyShriver
In June 1963, Shriver started a summer day camp for children and adults with intellectual disabilities at her home in Maryland to explore their capabilities in a variety of sports and physical activities.
Shriver remains a member of the Special Olympics Board of Directors and continues to lend her well-earned reputation as a visionary leader in improving the lives of people with intellectual disabilities to furthering the mission and expansion of the Movement.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver is married to Sargent Shriver, Chairman of the Board Emeritus of Special Olympics; former Director of the Peace Corps and the Office of Economic Opportunity; and former U.S. ambassador to France.
www.communityofcaring.org /AboutCofC/WhoWeAre/EuniceKennedyShriver.html   (794 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | Sports | Happy birthday
Eunice Kennedy Shriver is married to Sargent Shriver.
Shriver once said people with intellectual disabilities were far more capable than commonly believed and deserved the same opportunities and experiences as others.
Shriver is executive vice president of the foundation, which was established in 1946 by her father and mother, Ambassador and Mrs Joseph P Kennedy, to honour their eldest son who was killed in World War II.
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 American Experience | The Kennedys | Kennedy Family Tree | PBS
Sargent Shriver, known as Sarge, served in the Navy during World War II and entered political life by working on his brother-in-law Jack's political campaigns.
Robert Kennedy served in the Navy during WWII and was the presidential campaign manager for his brother, eventually serving as attorney general during Jack's administration.
Robert Kennedy is a widely respected prosecuting attorney and professor at Pace University School of Law.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/kennedys/sfeature/sf_tree_text.html   (1748 words)

  
 Biofiles: Maria Shriver
Shriver was born in Chicago in 1955 to two very political parents.
Her father, Sargent Shriver, is a former ambassador and a former candidate for the U.S. Vice-Presidency.
Shriver, an acclaimed journalist, resigned from NBC to assume her new duties as the First Lady of California.
www.historyguy.com /biofiles/shriver_maria.html   (537 words)

  
 EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER RECEIVES NCAA'S HIGHEST HONOR; 2002 THEODORE ROOSEVELT AWARD
Shriver is the executive vice-president of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.
Shriver, the fifth child of the Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy family, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts.
She is married to Sargent Shriver, who is chairman of the board of Special Olympics, Inc., former director of the Peace Corps and the Office of Economic Opportunity, and former United States ambassador to France.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Shriver was born in Westminster, Maryland, spent his high school years at the Canterbury School, the prestigious school in Milford, Connecticut.
After graduating from the Canterbury School, which he attended on a full scholarship, Shriver spent the summer in Germany as part of the Experiment in International Living, returning in the fall of 1934 to begin college at Yale University.
In July, 2007 Shriver's son-in-law California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, speaking out in favor of stem-cell research, announced that Shriver's Alzheimer's disease had advanced to the point that he no longer recognizes many of those close to him.
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 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Sargent R. Shriver
Shriver is married to Eunice Kennedy Shriver, daughter of Joseph P. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver is the Founder and Honorary Chairman of Special Olympics and the Executive Vice President of the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.
Under Shriver's guidance and leadership, the Peace Corps was born.
www.medaloffreedom.com /SargentShriver.htm   (1999 words)

  
 Yale University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Robert Sargent Shriver III (Law), part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles
Sargent Shriver, main organizer and first director of the Peace Corps.
Husband of Eunice Kennedy, and father of Maria Shriver (news journalist and wife of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger).
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 Definition of Robert Sargent Shriver III
Robert Sargent Shriver III (born April 28, 1954) is a Yale Law School graduate and former part-owner of Baltimore Orioles.
His mother is Eunice Mary Kennedy and his father is (Robert) Sargent Shriver, Jr.
A resident of Santa Monica, California, Shriver is an attorney and President of RSS Inc., a Beverly Hills music, film and philanthrophic company.
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 Peace Corps Online | October 13, 2003 - Palm Beach Post: Sargent Shriver's family in "Winter White House" ...
Sargent was married to Eunice, fifth child of Joseph and Rose Kennedy.
Eunice and Sargent's oldest child, Robert Sargent Shriver III, a businessman and film producer, was born in 1954.
The last major Shriver gathering, 25 family members present, was held in April of 1995 and included a touch football game on the lawn.
peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/2629/2016906.html   (1646 words)

  
 American Experience | The Kennedys | People & Events | PBS
Robert and Ethel's children have been the most politically successful Kennedys of their generation.
Maria Shriver Schwarzenegger is the most well-known television journalist in her family; her cousin Douglas Harriman Kennedy has appeared on Fox News.
Robert Sargent Shriver III and Christopher Kennedy Lawford have both produced films.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/kennedys/peopleevents/p_children.html   (610 words)

  
 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Over the last two decades, she has been on the forefront of numerous initiatives on behalf of the mentally retarded, from creating day camps, to establishing research centers, to the founding of the Special Olympics.
Shriver the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, for work on behalf of persons with mental retardation, he had this to say:
Eunice Kennedy Shriver is married to Sargent Shriver, Chairman of the Board of Special Olympics, Inc. and former Director of the Peace Corps and the Office of Economic Opportunity, and former U.S. ambassador to France.
www.medaloffreedom.com /EuniceKennedyShriver.htm   (762 words)

  
 NAMIWALKS Los Angeles County - For the Mind of America
Bobby Shriver (Robert Sargent Shriver III), Mayor Pro Tem of the City of Santa Monica, California, is a tireless social issue advocate, both personally and professionally.
Mayor Pro Tem Shriver is currently working in association with organizations such as NAMI on solutions to the homeless crisis in Santa Monica and Los Angeles County.
Shriver is the current Chairman of the California State Parks and Recreation Commission.
www.namiwalkslac.org /about-mayor.html   (210 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Scott Stossel and Bobby Shriver discuss the political idealism and civic engagement of the 1960s as exemplified by the inspiring and influential career of Sargent Shriver.
Shriver' feature film credits include the 1994 box-office hit "True Lies," which he executive produced from a story he found and developed.
Shriver is a Director of The Crossroads at Antigua Foundation, Chairman of the California State Parks and Recreation system, Chairman of DATA Foundation Inc. and a Santa Monica City Councilman.
www.sbpca.org /shriver.htm   (788 words)

  
 Schwarzenegger.com - Activist - Special Olympics
Shriver, Chairman of the Board Emeritus, Special Olympics, has compiled an unparalleled record of public service at every tier, from the local level to the world community, and those present were eager to pay him tribute.
Following the panel, Shriver and Stossel signed copies of Sarge, published by the Smithsonian Institution Press, for a large number of well-wishers.
“Sargent Shriver’s career is the best exemplification of the spirit of this institution.” Wolfensohn has made sustainable poverty reduction the World Bank Group’s overarching mission.
www.schwarzenegger.com /en/activist/specialolympics/so_en_Sargent_Shriver.asp?sec=activist&subsec=specialolympics   (764 words)

  
 Peace Corps Online | March 5, 2004 - LA Times: Governor Schwarzenegger Renames Sargent Shriver III to State Park Panel
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday reappointed his brother-in-law, Robert Sargent Shriver III, and filmmaker-actor Clint Eastwood to four-year terms on the state Park and Recreation Commission.
Both Shriver, 49, a Democrat and brother of First Lady Maria Shriver, and Eastwood, 73, a Republican and former mayor of Carmel, were first appointed to the advisory commission by former Gov. Gray Davis in 2001.
Santa Monica resident Shriver, a former producer of television programs on the Special Olympics, is an attorney and president of RSS Inc., a Beverly Hills music, film and philanthropic company.
peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/2629/2020505.html   (517 words)

  
 Articles - Kennedy family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
But these predictions were not borne out, and the idea largely dropped off the public's radar after Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1968 and Senator Edward Kennedy was involved in a possible drunk-driving incident (in which a passenger in his car was killed) in 1969.
Robert Sargent Shriver III - attorney and law professor at Pace University.
Mark Kennedy Shriver - a delegate in the Maryland state legislature for two consecutive terms.
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 Sargent Shriver Information
Shriver spent his high school years at Georgetown Preparatory School, the prestigious all-boys Jesuit school in North Bethesda, Maryland.
An early opponent of American involvement in World War II, Shriver was a founding member of America First, an organization that stoked controversy due to its association with pilot and alleged anti-Semite Charles Lindbergh.
Shriver returned to the political world in 1972, when George McGovern chose him as his Vice Presidential running mate after McGovern's first pick -- Thomas Eagleton -- turned out to have had mental health problems.
www.bookrags.com /Sargent_Shriver   (1014 words)

  
 The National Peace Corps Association: Sargent Shriver
During its November 9th meeting, the NPCA board passed a resolution officially extending its greetings to Sargent Shriver on the occasion of his 90th birthday.
For an account of the founding of Peace Corps, read “Independent Start,” an excerpt from “Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver,” written by Scott Stossel, published by Smithsonian Books and reprinted by permission in the spring 2004 Vol.
In June, Shriver stepped down as Chairman of Special Olympics and was appointed Chairman Emeritus in recognition of his long service and dedication to the Movement, which he continues to serve as an ambassador of optimism and good will
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Some commentators in the early 1960s made predictions that President John F. Kennedy would be first of a dynasty in the White House.
# Robert Sargent Shriver III - attorney and law professor at Pace University.
He is best known for his many successful litigations to prevent water pollution, primarily in the New York area.
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 Eunice Mary Kennedy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Eunice Mary Kennedy was born on July 10, 1921 and married Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr.
Children of Eunice Mary Kennedy & Robert Sargent Shriver Jr.
Due to the munificence that Eunice Kennedy showed to those with handicaps through the foundation of the special olympics, she received many honors including the acquisition of her face on the 1995 United States Commemorative Special Olympics Silver Dollar.
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 Eunice Kennedy Shriver - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Eunice Kennedy Shriver   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver (born July 10, 1921) is a member of the Kennedy family.
Her father was Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and her mother was Rose Kennedy.
On May 23, 1953, she married Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr., who was U.S. ambassador to France from 1968 to 1970, and was Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1972.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Eunice-Kennedy-Shriver.html   (272 words)

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