Sad news:
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a member of one of the most prominent families in American politics and a trailblazer in the effort to improve the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, died early Tuesday morning at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass. She was 88…
A sister of President John F. Kennedy and Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy and the mother-in-law of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, Mrs. Shriver never held elective office. Yet she was no stranger to Capitol Hill, and some view her work on behalf of the developmentally challenged, including the founding of the Special Olympics, as the most lasting of the Kennedy family’s contributions.
“When the full judgment of the Kennedy legacy is made — including J.F.K.’s Peace Corps and Alliance for Progress, Robert Kennedy’s passion for civil rights and Ted Kennedy’s efforts on health care, workplace reform and refugees — the changes wrought by Eunice Shriver may well be seen as the most consequential,” U.S. News and World Report said in its cover story of Nov. 15, 1993.
I hope we pass health care this year and make this statement false. In any case, godspeed to Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
She was a wonderful woman, from one of the few families on the planet that really did believe those who were born to privilege owed a greater responsibility to the rest than others.
God bless her, her family, and all the Kennedys for all they have given to us over the years.
She was revered in Ireland for her work for the special Olympics which were held in Dublin in 2003 – the first time they were held outside the USA.
May Eunice Kennedy Shriver rest in peace. Mrs. Shriver our world is at a lost with your passing, but the inspiration and legacy that you have left will continue through your children and all the countless others that you have inspired. RIP and be with your loved ones who left long ago. I want to donate some of my cash advance for her funeral. Condolence to her family. God bless.