‘Knifed’: Sargent Shriver and the 1968 VP Nomination

In the spring of 1968 Sargent Shriver—the founding director of the Peace Corps, the head of Johnson’s War on Poverty, and, as the husband of Eunice Kennedy, a brother-in-law of John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy—was appointed U.S. ambassador to France. His appointment was not without controversy in the upper reaches of the Democratic Party—and in his own extended family.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: May 1, 2004
Length: 16 minutes (4,022 words)
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