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Bullwinkle58 -> RE: OT: Horrywood Sargents with names beginning with S (10/29/2014 12:04:17 PM)
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Maria Shriver's father and former father in law to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Sargent Shriver also married into the Kennedy family.
Bill
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Interesting how history changes in the popular mind. I would have said he started the Peace Corps and was the nominee for Vice-President of the United States in 1972.
I remember hearing about those accomplishments when people were eulogizing him, but I didn't remember them until you mentioned them here. I was around in 1972, but I think I was more concerned about Christmas than the presidential election. My first awareness of political was when Nixon resigned, which was still ahead of most of my classmates, most of whom didn't know the capital of California (and they lived there).
Bill
I have a vivid memory of watching the 1972 election results on a portable B&W TV in our kitchen with my dad, who was a solid Nixon man. That was a dirty election of course. Look up the reason Shriver was even on the final ticket as well as Watergate's inception. That Nixon went from that historic sweep to resignation in two years says something about the man.
I was working my first job bussing tables at Virginia Beach when he resigned. On a portable radio somebody walked by with as I sat on a bench on the boardwalk after work. Watergate was the defining event of my young political life. I voted in the 1976 election. I had been 18 for three weeks.
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