R. Sargent Shriver might have been a true political rarity, a democratic governor of Illinois and possibly just possibly President of the United States, if he hadn't married into the Kennedy Clan.
He was shrewd, affable, good looking with a reasonable pedigree and a good eye for the main chance and from 1960 on he did naught but labor in the Kennedy Family vineyards.
Still and all that he wracked up an impressive record with the Peace Corps, the Office of Economic Opportunity, the Ambassadorship to France and later on, in private life he helped sire the Special Olympics.
Pretty good resume there...He was in the end, an able man in a dawning era of blustery ineptoids.
he also ran for Vice President and contended briefly for the democratic presidential nomination in 1976 but both cases he struck no sparks and in turn wandered off into a very private private life.
Well, Rest in Peace Sarge, I think you'll "get heaven" (To quote my grey haired old Irish Mother) on the strength that you kept the C.I.A.'s mitts off the Peace Corps.
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