Sargent Shriver, one of last links to JFK White House, dies

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

BETHESDA, Md. -- R. Sargent Shriver, the exuberant public servant and Kennedy in-law whose career included directing the Peace Corps, fighting the War on Poverty, ambassador to France and, less successfully, running for office, died Tuesday. He was 95.

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