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    reported directly to Sargent Shriver. The current national director of the Office of Job Corps is Rachel Torres. The Job Corps program is currently authorized...
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    part of the Kennedy family. Shriver was the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, and founded the Job Corps, Head Start, VISTA, Upward...
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    Project, Shriver earned two Emmy Awards and an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences award for developing a "television show with a conscience." Shriver was...
    63 KB (5,487 words) - 10:34, 23 May 2024
  • the People Party. Shriver was born at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, to Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver, Jr. His mother is...
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    on the former Fort Devens allowed the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Shriver Job Corps, Massachusetts National Guard, Massachusetts Veterans and MassDevelopment...
    22 KB (2,594 words) - 18:37, 7 March 2024
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    on the former Fort Devens allowed the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Shriver Job Corps, Massachusetts National Guard, Massachusetts Veterans and MassDevelopment...
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    Asia. Kennedy appointed his brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, to be the program's first director. Shriver fleshed out the organization and his think tank outlined...
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    Sargent Shriver to be the Director of Public Affairs for the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) which included programs such as Job Corps, Head Start...
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    The NASA Astronaut Corps is a unit of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that selects, trains, and provides astronauts...
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    Kennedy, Rosemary Kennedy, and Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver. She was also a sister-in-law of Jacqueline Kennedy. As Ambassador to Ireland...
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  • William Haddad (category Peace Corps people)
    high-profile jobs during his lifetime. He is most known for being an aide to the Kennedy Family, during which he helped launch the Peace Corps with R. Sargent...
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    Jack H. Vaughn (category Peace Corps directors)
    second director of the United States Peace Corps, succeeding Sargent Shriver. Vaughn was appointed Peace Corps director in 1966 by President Lyndon Johnson...
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    Harris Wofford (category Peace Corps people)
    work with Sargent Shriver on winning over the "Negro vote". When King was imprisoned shortly before the election, Wofford and Shriver persuaded Kennedy...
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  • President. R. Sargent Shriver served as its first director. The Office administered antipoverty programs such as VISTA, Job Corps, Community Action Program...
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    Carolyn R. Payton (category Peace Corps directors)
    United States Peace Corps in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter. She was the first female and the first African American to be Peace Corps Director. Payton was...
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    Giscard d'Estaing of the Legion of Honor award to her aunt, Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Later that year, Caroline was visiting London to complete a year-long...
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    and get quality, long-term jobs or further their education. Job Corps continues to help 70,000 youths annually at 122 Job Corps centers throughout the country...
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    John Glenn (category United States Marine Corps astronauts)
    Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third American...
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    John F. Kennedy (category Recipients of the Navy and Marine Corps Medal)
    Executive Order 10924 that officially started the Peace Corps. He named his brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, as its first director. Through this program, Americans...
    229 KB (23,375 words) - 19:08, 21 July 2024
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    Joseph Blatchford (category Peace Corps directors)
    he started Accion International, six months before Sargent Shriver started the Peace Corps. The New York Times reported on March 26, 1961, that Accion...
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