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4 days ago · This week’s quote is from the Address to the National Farmers’ Union, an early speech during Sargent Shriver’s time working on the War on Poverty. President Johnson had asked Shriver to lead the poverty effort only six weeks earlier, and during this time, Shriver was heading an anti-poverty task force, which would eventually develop the ...
3 days ago · 2. Edgar S. Cahn was Sargent Shriver’s speech writer and created the National Legal Services Program design with his wife, Jean Cahn. I was first inspired in law school when I read Edgar and Jean’s seminal article in Yale Law Journal on reinventing poverty law. What personal achievement gives you the most satisfaction? 3.
1 day ago · Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson November 22, 1963 – January 20, 1969 ... Under the leadership of Sargent Shriver, ... Robert F. Kennedy was a widely popular choice ...
1 day ago · In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson asked Sargent Shriver to convene an interdisciplinary panel of experts to design a program to help communities meet the needs of preschool children – in and beyond the classroom. The committee’s “Cooke Report,” named after its chair Dr. Robert Cooke, became the blueprint for Project Head Start.
2 days ago · The 1976 United States presidential election was the 48th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1976. Democrat Jimmy Carter, former Governor of Georgia, defeated incumbent Republican president Gerald Ford in a narrow victory. This was the first presidential election since 1932 in which the incumbent was defeated, as ...
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1 day ago · The younger sister of John F. Kennedy married Sargent Shriver on May 23, 1953. The bride, who got married a few months before JFK and Jackie, wore a dress strikingly similar to what her future ...
2 days ago · From January 27 to June 8, 1976, voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for president in the 1976 United States presidential election. Former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1976 Democratic National Convention held from July 12 to July 15 ...
