How Sargent Shriver Came to Lead LBJ's War on Poverty

There was a moment in the wake of John F. Kennedy's assassination when it seemed Sargent Shriver might become the U.S. vice president. Instead, he became the reluctant head of Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty.

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