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May 31, 2024 · When Sargent Shriver came on the scene to lead the War on Poverty, he embraced the notion of community action and was a proponent of setting up local agencies that would focus on the specific and varied needs of the economically disadvantaged.
Jun 1, 2024 · Sargent Shriver, the director of President Johnson’s War on Poverty, launched Project Head Start with the assistance of First Lady Lady Bird Johnson in June 1965. An eight-week summer program, Project Head Start promotes school readiness and provides comprehensive health, nutritional, and social care to children from low-income families.
May 17, 2024 · “A nation which has wiped out the great epidemic diseases of malaria and typhoid fever and polio -- which has penetrated the heart of the atom and the planets of the heavens -- that nation can also do battle against the conditions which create poverty.” Sargent Shriver | St Paul, MN | March 16, 1964.
May 24, 2024 · Shriver begins his Remarks at Suresnes American Military Cemetery and Memorial with these words, turning quickly from the duty of soldiers to the duty we all share towards our fellow human beings. For Sargent Shriver, by caring for the living and ensuring that all could live lives free from poverty, hunger, disease, oppression, we would not ...
May 11, 2024 · By the 1950s, a group of World Federalists wanted a voluntary “peace force” to work in developing countries. Also in the 1950s, Sargent Shriver suggested an adventurous people-to-people scheme to President Eisenhower — a plan for sending three-man political action teams to Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
May 21, 2024 · The Terminator star and former Governor of California shares four kids with ex-wife Maria Shriver: daughters Katherine, 34, and Christina, 31, and sons Patrick, 30, and Christopher, 26.
May 14, 2024 · Shriver’s father, Robert “Sargent” Shriver, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2003 when Maria was in her 40s. Sargent was “the smartest human being I had ever met,” Shriver told KTLA in...
