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5 giorni fa · “If you minimize, or tend to disbelieve that human dignity is under attack world-wide, you haven’t even read the morning newspapers.”
2 giorni fa · In the presidential election of 1972, Nixon and Agnew were re-elected for a second term, defeating Senator George McGovern and his running mate Sargent Shriver in one of the largest landslides in American history.
3 giorni fa · Shriver's upbringing instilled in him a strong sense of social justice, which would guide his future endeavors. Sargent Shriver's Political Career. Sargent Shriver's political career began in earnest when he was appointed by President John F. Kennedy as the first director of the Peace Corps in 1961.
2 giorni fa · The protagonists are “a small but influential cast of liberal intellectuals” and their ideas in the period from the 1930s to the late 1960s: The anthropologist John Collier, who developed a comprehensive approach to the problem of poverty; his colleague Oscar Lewis, who invented the concept of the “culture of poverty”; the Keynesian economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who introduced the ...
4 giorni fa · Peace Corps, U.S. government agency of volunteers, established by executive order by President John F. Kennedy on March 1, 1961, and authorized by the U.S. Congress through the Peace Corps Act of September 22, 1961. The first director of the Peace Corps was Kennedy’s brother-in-law R. Sargent Shriver.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
21 ore fa · Sargent Shriver, brother-in-law to John, Robert, and Ted Kennedy, former Ambassador to France, and former Director of the Peace Corps, later accepted. [42] He was officially nominated by a special session of the Democratic National Committee. By this time, McGovern's poll ratings had plunged from 41 to 24 percent.
2 giorni fa · The DNC selected Sargent Shriver to join George McGovern in an unsuccessful battle to unseat President Richard Nixon. The new candidate’s name, however, would not appear on ballot papers.
