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Author’s Interviews
Vernon Alden—February 18, 1998
William Alford—October 30, 2001
Clinton Bamberger—February 18, 1998
Bill Blair—October 20, 2000
Frances Bowers—August 22, 2000
Bob Blake—February 19, 1998
David Birenbaum—March 4, 2002
Hyman Bookbinder—February 18, 1998
Frances Cook—September 25, 2001
Bob Cooke—February 18, 1998
Lloyd Davis—October 18, 2000
Eleanor Hoguet DeGive—August 11, 2000
Donald Dell—April 15, 2003; April 17, 2003
Ralph Dungan—May 15, 2003
Joe English—February 18, 1998; October 5, 2000; October 12, 2000
Kay Fanning—September 19, 2000
George Foreman—August 15, 2003
Bill Haddad—January 30, 1998; January 4, 2002
Bob Holliday—March 5, 2002
Phil Hardberger—February 18, 1998
Joe Hakim—April 10, 2002
Bryan Hehir—March 27, 2003
Ted Hesburgh—April 17, 2002
William Josephson—August 5, 2000; October 5, 2000; October 12, 2000
Mickey Kantor—March 6, 2002
Edward M. Kennedy—February 16, 2004
Pat Kennedy—February 18, 1998
Hans Kung—May 20, 2003
Anthony Lake—May 13, 2003
Frank Mankiewicz—February 18, 1998; March 5, 2002
Ed Marciniak—August 21, 2000
Edgar May—February 21, 2002
Colman McCarthy—July 30, 2003
Mav McCarthy—July 30, 2003
Andy McCutcheon—February 20, 2003
Ignatius McDermott—August 21, 2000
Robert McNamara—May 15, 2003
Newt Minow—August 22, 2000
Daniel Morrissey—February 19, 1998; March 3, 2003
Bill Moyers—January 30, 1998
Fred Nadherny—August 21, 2000
Mary Ann Orlando—January 30, 1998; September 26, 2001
Andrei Pavlov—March 31, 2000
Mollie Shriver Pierrepont—August 14, 2000
Richard Ragsdale—October 16, 2000
Julius Richmond—February 18, 1998
Dan Rostenkowski—August 22, 2000
Stan Salette—March 6, 2002
Tom Scanlon—January 30, 1998
Arnold Schwarzenegger—July 29, 2003
Jose Serrano—April 2, 2003
Mark Shields—April 16, 2002
Anthony Shriver—June 10, 2003
Bobby Shriver—May 21, 2003; May 30, 2003
Eunice Kennedy Shriver—January 30, 1998; September 24, 26, 2001; September 29, 2003; October 15, 2003
Helen “Babs” Shriver—June 22, 2000
Maria Shriver—July 9, 2003
Mark Shriver—September 26, 2001
Sargent Shriver—August 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 15, 16, 24, 25, 30, 31, 1997; September 1, 1997; December 26, 27, 28, 1997; January 30, 1998; February 18, 1998; March 30, 1998; September 7, 1998; March 12, 1999; August 16, 1999; March 3, 4, 5, 22, 23, 24, 31, 2000; April 4, 5, 25, 2000; June 22, 2000; August 17, 2000
Timothy Shriver—March 5, 2002
Otis Singletary—February 18, 1998
Bob Stuart—September 5, 2001
Larry Tribe—February 26, 2002
Warren Wiggins—January 30, 1998
Harris Wofford—January 30, 1998
Oral Histories
Don Baker
John A. Baker
Hyman Bookbinder
Edgar Cahn
Jean Cahn
William Cannon
William Capron
Wilbur Cohen
Ann Oppenheimer Hamilton
Bertrand Harding
Walter Heller
Harold Horowitz
William Josephson
Bill Kelly
Herb Kramer
Robert Lampman
Frank Mankiewicz
Edgar May
Leonard Mayo
George McCarthy
Larry O’Brien
Bradley Patterson
Robert C. Perrin
Charles Peters
William Phillips
Lewis Powell
Thomas Quimby
Julius Richmond
Barefoot Sanders
Norb Schlei
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Sargent Shriver
George Smathers
Jules Sugarman
Jim Sundquist
Eric Tolmach
Adam Walinsky
Christopher Weeks
Adam Yarmolinsky
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SCOTT STOSSEL is a deputy editor of The Atlantic and has written for a wide array of publications, including The New Yorker, The New Republic, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe. He lives with his wife and children in Washington, DC.
Sarge spent his childhood summers at the Shriver family homestead in Union Mills, Maryland, where the air was still thick with the unresolved animosities of the Civil War. SHRIVER FAMILY COLLECTION
When some of his parents’ friends first saw Sargent Shriver after his birth on November 9, 1915, they deemed him “fat as a pig.” SHRIVER FAMILY COLLECTION, JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY
From childhood, Shriver was a leader in nearly everything he did, including serving as captain (he’s wearing the captain’s C) of his baseball team at the Canterbury School, where he was briefly a classmate of young John F. Kennedy. SHRIVER FAMILY COLLECTION, JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY
James Cardinal Gibbons, the Catholic archbishop of Baltimore, alongside Sarge’s older brother, Herbert Shriver (on step), and an unidentified boy. A classmate of Sarge’s grandfather at seminary, the cardinal spent his summers in the Shriver home in Union Mills and exerted a powerful influence on Sarge’s budding
religious sensibility. SHRIVER FAMILY COLLECTION
Shriver (second row, second from left) with the crew of his submarine, the USS Sandlance, during a change of command at Midway Island, in June 1945. SHRIVER FAMILY COLLECTION, JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY
Naval lieutenant Shriver walks the streets of Manhattan in the early 1940s. SHRIVER FAMILY COLLECTION, JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY
After seven years of courtship, Sarge married Eunice Kennedy on May 23, 1953. CORBIS
Through his work with the Chicago Catholic Interracial Council in the 1950s, Shriver became friendly with Martin Luther King Jr. and other leading figures of the civil rights movement. In 1960 Shriver was instrumental in arranging JFK’s phone call to Coretta Scott King, which some believe was what enabled Kennedy to eke out his victory over Richard Nixon. CORBIS
By marrying Eunice, Shriver hitched his fate to that of a large, powerful clan. Seated, left to right: Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Rose Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Edward “Ted” Kennedy. Standing, left to right: Ethel Skakel Kennedy, Stephen Smith, Jean Kennedy Smith, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Patricia Kennedy Lawford, Sargent Shriver, Joan Bennett Kennedy, and Peter Lawford. CORBIS
At a 1960 parade for Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kennedy, Shriver sits alongside Chicago mayor Richard Daley, while Eunice peers around from behind her brother. ASSOCIATED PRESS
Shriver and his brother-in-law at the White House, not long after Kennedy’s election. SHRIVER FAMILY COLLECTION
Shriver at a White House press conference with Bill Moyers, who left LBJ’s staff to become deputy director of the Peace Corps. After JFK’s death, Moyers returned to LBJ’s staff, where he remained a crucial Shriver ally. SHRIVER FAMILY COLLECTION, JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY
President Kennedy hands Shriver a pen used to sign the Peace Corps Act, on September 22, 1961, giving the organization permanent status. Standing next to the president, Senator Hubert Humphrey—the future vice president and 1968 Democratic presidential nominee—looks on happily. CORBIS
Shriver at work with Charlie Peters, the “conscience of the Peace Corps.” Peters, a young veteran of the 1960 Kennedy campaign, joined the Peace Corps staff in 1961 and led the famed Evaluation Division that helped make the organization so distinctive.
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