Shriver was the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, and founded the Job Corps, Head Start, VISTA, Upward Bound, [2] and other programs as the architect of the 1960s War on Poverty. [3] . He was the Democratic Party 's nominee …

2025年1月14日 · R. Sargent Shriver was an administrator, diplomat, first director (1961–66) of the U.S. Peace Corps, and Democratic nominee for the U.S. vice presidency in 1972. A graduate of Yale Law School (1941), Shriver served as a U.S. naval officer during World War II, and, after a brief association with a

2011年1月18日 · R. Sargent Shriver, the Kennedy in-law who became the founding director of the Peace Corps, the architect of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s war on poverty, a United States ambassador to...

Concerned about the influence of Soviet communism around the world, and seeking to harness the energy and enthusiasm of America’s youth, John F. Kennedy called for the creation of a Peace Corps - an organization of young ambassadors who, by serving those in need around the world, would demonstrate the values that made the U.S. a good neighbor ...

Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. (November 9, 1915 – January 18, 2011) was an American politician who was the first director of the Peace Corps from 1961 until 1966, then he was the first director of the OEO from 1964 until 1968, and was the 21st ambassador to France from 1968 until 1970.

Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. was born on November 9, 1915 and served as the first Director of the Peace Corps during the 1960s. In 1961, Shriver participated in an eight nation tour with the goal of creating more Peace Corps programs throughout Africa and Asia. His leadership expanded the influence of the Peace Corps and set the foundation for ...

2014年3月13日 · R. Sargent Shriver, a lawyer who served as the social conscience of two administrations, launching the Peace Corps for his brother-in-law, President Kennedy, and leading the “war on...

2011年1月18日 · R. Sargent Shriver — the first Peace Corps director, one-time vice-presidential nominee, and most famous Kennedy in-law — died Tuesday in his native Maryland. He was 95 and had been...

Founding director and ideator of the Peace Corps, an independent organization of the US government that works “to promote world peace and friendship through community-based development and intercultural understanding,” sending volunteers to participating countries to live within and work with their communities to support impactful goals

2023年1月18日 · R. Sargent Shriver was always an optimist, pioneering the Peace Corps and running the War on Poverty during the turbulent 1960s — an idealist even as the running mate on a Democratic presidential ticket doomed for failure.