Director Of Peace Corps R. Sargent Shriver Died At 95

R. Sargent Shriver, the Kennedy in the law that became the founding director of the Peace Corps, the architect of the war s President Lyndon B. Johnson on poverty, a United States ambassador to France and Democratic vice presidential candidate in 1972, died on Tuesday in Bethesda, Md. He was 95.

Mr. Shriver was found to have Alzheimer's disease in 2003 and Sunday was admitted to Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, where he died. He had been in hospice care in recent months after his estate in Potomac, Maryland, was sold last year.
White hair and dressed up, attended the inauguration of his son-in-law, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican governor of California in the fall of 2003. Schwarzenegger is married to the daughter of Mr. Shriver, a former NBC News correspondent Maria Shriver.
But in recent years as his condition deteriorated, Mr. Shriver was rarely seen in public, that arise in a request to attend the funeral of his wife of 56 years, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of John F. s Kennedy, who died in 2009 in Hyannis, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, at the age of 88.
As a Kennedy brother-in-law, Mr. Shriver was inextricably bound to one of the most powerful dynasties of the political nation. It was a partnership with tremendous benefits, pushing him to fame in a series of seemingly altruistic missions. But it came with difficulty, relegating it to a political background and in a supporting role in the history of the family.
"The relationship with Kennedy Shriver was complex," wrote Scott Stossel on "Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver," a biography of 2004. "They kept him afloat to the heights and achievements that otherwise would never have met - and arrested him, thwarting his political advancement."
The data and reports in the New York Times, The Washington Post and other publications suggest that Mr. Shriver expects to run for governor of Illinois in 1960 and vice president in 1964 and 1968 were left to help promote, or at least not to compete with , Kennedy aspirations. vice presidential race, Mr. Shriver in 1972 on a ticket with Senator George S. McGovern, and a short primary for president in 1976 were crushed by voters.
Mr. Shriver was never elected to national office. Politicians, public service calls in the 1960 seemed quixotic at a time when America was embroiled in a war in Vietnam, a cold war with the Soviet Union and civil rights struggles and urban riots in the country . But when the fog of war and chaos explained years later, he was remembered by many as a last vestige of Kennedy-era idealism.
"Sarge came to embody the idea of public service," Obama said in a statement Tuesday.
Mr. Shriver impact on American life was significant. In the scenario of social change for decades, brought the proposal of President Kennedy's Peace Corps to fruition in 1961 and served as director of the organization until 1966. He tapped in a spirit of volunteerism, and within a year thousands of young Americans were teaching and working in public health and development projects in poorer countries around the world.
After the assassination of president in 1963, Mr. Shriver's decision to remain in the Johnson administration alienated many of the Kennedys, especially Robert, who remained as the U.S. attorney general for months, but whose animosity towards succeeded his brother was profound. the responsibilities of Mr. Shriver was deepened, however. In 1964, Johnson persuaded him to take over the administration's war on poverty, a campaign of content in a huge new bureaucracy, the Office of Economic Opportunity.