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SCA mourns the loss but celebrates the legacy of public service giant Sargent Shriver. Our thoughts are with his family.

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Wed, 01/19/2011

R. Sargent Shriver, Peace Corps Leader, Dies at 95

R. Sargent Shriver, the Kennedy in-law who became the founding director of the Peace Corps, the architect of President Lyndon B. Johnson's war on poverty, a United States ambassador to France and the Democratic candidate for vice president in 1972, died on Tuesday in Bethesda, Md. He was 95. ...continue on NYT [1]

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[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/us/politics/19shriver.html?_r=2&sq=sargent%20shriver&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=1&adxnnlx=1295450151-hWGH2wauRAdawM6IGuna8g