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...Governor was ready for his close-up. He had planned to be with his wife, Maria Shriver, at a major conference on women's issues sponsored by his office, but when the emergency escalated, he rushed to the front lines with camera crews in tow. With squinting eyes and frowny mouth, he greeted firefighters and surveyed the ruins of incinerated homes. Schwarzenegger explained his philosophy of being a Governor with his customary candor in a message beamed by satellite to the 14,000 conference-goers back in Long Beach. "The most important thing is you jump into action as quickly...
Before male feminists were groovy, Richard Graham, onetime deputy to Peace Corps director Sargent Shriver and founding member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, waged an uphill battle for women's equality. In Washington, where members of Congress joked about sex discrimination and the eeoc ignored it, the ex-Air Force engineer insisted women should be hired for hard labor posts and mothers were "the most stable workers in the labor market." Graham later helped found the National Organization for Women...
...unknown foreign policy wonk in the Kennedy Administration, Warren Wiggins wrote an impassioned treatise on the promise of Kennedy's still nascent Peace Corps, urging its leaders to fight to make it more than just a small agency to generate good publicity. On reading it, Sargent Shriver, the Corps's first director, who was then trying to define the agency, distributed the memo to his staff and fired off a 3 a.m. telegram demanding that Wiggins meet with him the next morning. Within four weeks, an Executive Order gave birth to the Peace Corps. Wiggins...
...meant nothing at all. Since the love we distill for each beloved conforms to such a specific, rarefied recipe ... you really needed as many different words for the feeling as there were people whom you cared for in your life.' --PAGE 240 OF the post- birthday world BY LIONEL SHRIVER...
...pictures of Maria Shriver...