Robert Sargent Shriver
Robert Sargent Shriver 1915-, U.S. public official, b. Westminster, Md. A lawyer, he served in World War II and was (1945-46) an assistant editor of Newsweek magazine before joining the business enterprises of his future father-in-law, Joseph P. Kennedy. He participated in John F. Kennedy 's successful presidential campaign, and in 1961 he was appointed the first director of the U.S. Peace Corps . An effective head of this organization, he was named (1964) director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) by President Lyndon B. Johnson and held both posts until 1966, when he resigned from the Peace Corps to devote himself to OEO. In 1968 he was appointed ambassador to France; he held that post until 1970. A Democrat, he became George McGovern 's vice-presidential running mate in 1972, after Thomas Eagleton withdrew from the Democratic ticket. McGovern and Shriver were defeated.
Bibliography: See his Point of the Lance (1964); biography by R. A. Liston (1964).
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GWU Professor To Investigate J. Edgar Hoover's Death
News Wire article from: University Wire; 1/21/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...been granted access to J. Edgar Hoovers medical and death records...believes that access to the Hoover records may allow him...circumstances surrounding Hoovers 1972 death at age 77...In 1972, I heard that J. Edgar Hoover had died, and no autopsy...
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J. Edgar Hoover was Black, book reveals
Newspaper article from: Michigan Citizen; 5/20/2000; 547 words
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Was J. Edgar Hoover Black? Author Millie L. McGhee claims former FBI director was passing for white; says father was son of Black slave
Newspaper article from: New Pittsburgh Courier; 7/1/2000; ; 700+ words
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J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and His Secrets.
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 2/10/1992; ; 700+ words
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Is he Black or White? J. Edgar Hoover's dark secret
Newspaper article from: Chicago Defender; 7/18/2000; ; 700+ words
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`Gay' Edgar Hoover and Other Smears.(Review)
Magazine article from: Insight on the News; 3/26/2001; ; 700+ words
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J. Edgar Hoover and the Ku Klux Klan.
Magazine article from: National Observer - Australia and World Affairs; 6/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...seems incredible now that J. Edgar Hoover, who ran the United States...Far from gloating over Hoover's end, the Soviet news...sentence: "J. Edgar Hoover, who headed the United...sadness for America ... J. Edgar Hoover was one of the giants...
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J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets.
Magazine article from: National Review; 12/2/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...account of the death of John Edgar Hoover, Curt Gentry writes...the theme and approach of J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the...000 trying to prove that Hoover was homosexual, and finally...on states' rights." J. Edgar Hoover is made to seem...
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The file on J. Edgar Hoover
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/8/1993; ; 700+ words
; If you grew up in the 1950s, the name J. Edgar Hoover was synonymous with law enforcement and clean living...Frontline" tomorrow night (9, Ch. 2), the name J. Edgar Hoover will become synonymous with corruption at the...
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New book reveals J. Edgar Hoover's hatred of Dr. King, Dick Gregory and the Black Panthers. ('Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover' by Anthony Summers)
Magazine article from: Jet; 3/22/1993; 700+ words
; ...book, Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, unveils some of the late FBI director's use of intimidation...journalist and author Anthony Summers unearths some of J. Edgar Hoover's best-kept secrets, including that he was...
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Hoover, John Edgar
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
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John Edgar Hoover
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
John Edgar Hoover J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) was appointed assistant director of the Bureau...Bureau of Investigation from 1935 until his death in 1972, at age 77. J. Edgar Hoover was born into a Scottish Presbyterian family of civil...
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Hoover, J. Edgar
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Hoover, J. Edgar 1895-1972 John Edgar Hoover...director. In the years following Hoover ’ s death the controversies...x2019; s Secrets Uncovered: J. Edgar Hoover — Passing...ALSO ; ; ; ; Garrow, David J. 1981. The FBI and Martin...
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J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI
Book article from: American Decades
J. EDGAR HOOVER AND THE FBI A Better Bureau During the 1950s, as for several decades before and several decades after, J. Edgar Hoover was the Federal Bureau of Investigation. When he was named director...
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Hoover, (John) Edgar
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
Hoover, (John) Edgar (1895–1972),director...western hemisphere intelligence matters, Hoover was authorized by Roosevelt in 1940 to...R. , Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover (New York, 1987).
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