12-31-12: Sargent Shriver, A Good Man

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This segment originally aired on June 6, 2012.

When Sargent Shriver died in early 2011 at age 95, the phrase often repeated was, “He was a good man”. The obituaries and condolences recounted his legacy: founder of the Peace Corps, Job Corps, Volunteers In Service To America (VISTA), Head Start, advocate with his wife Eunice of the Special Olympics… and nearly all would quote someone summarizing Sargent Shriver as a good man.

His son, Mark Shriver, felt compelled to get to the bottom of that. He wrote a memoir, “A Good Man: Rediscovering my father, Sargent Shriver”.  Sheilah talked with him about it last June.