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Mark Shriver

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  1. “Yeah, her sister Rosemary had developmental issues. And I think she saw the opportunities her brother had, her brothers had. And I think felt that through sports, which she loved and was very good at, that she could start breaking down walls of isolation and misunderstanding and use sports as a vehicle to do that. So, you know, so-called experts said kids with developmental differences couldn't play sports team sports. She thought they could. They couldn't run track and field. She thought they could. And of course the games that you're referencing with Judge Burke in Chicago in 68 a couple of weeks after Uncle Bobby was killed in Soldier Field with Mayor Daly in attendance were the first international special Olympic Games and a couple of athletes from Canada, a couple of athletes scattered around America participate in those games and Mer Daly had the line after it was over”

    2017-01-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 109 - Mark Shriver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “It is. Yes, it's the key to enduring marriage. And they lived in Chicago for the first couple years of their marriage. My three older siblings were all born in Chicago.”

    2017-01-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 109 - Mark Shriver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “after the war. And so my mom and dad had met each other in New York and they dated when they were in Chicago and they ended up getting engaged in Chicago in the big park right down the street, which of course has just escaped my mind.”

    2017-01-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 109 - Mark Shriver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “How do they meet? I think they met. That's a good question. They met at a party. My father knew my mom's older sister, Kathleen Kennedy. And my dad is about six years, was about six years older than my mom. And they met in New York City after the war. My father went to Yale Law School and then skipped his graduation to go into the Navy and then Pearl Harbor happened. And then he went to New York after that and worked at Newsweek. And my grandpa, Joe Kennedy, who was, you know, on the merchandise mart, had met him, heard about him, and knew that he was a very good writer. He worked on the Yale Daily News. He put himself through college and through law school. As a writer? No, no, just, you know, through grants and scholarships. He's just, he was a smart guy. So I guess academic scholarships. And Joe Kennedy asked him to take a look at some writings that his son, Joe Kennedy, had written who they died.”

    2017-01-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 109 - Mark Shriver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Whether he was, you know, talking big shots or not. And I think that keeps you going every day. That's why he went to work until he, you know, Alzheimer's robbed him of the ability, because I don't think he saw his work. I think he saw it as, hey, here's my chance to do something today. I think my mother had the same thing”

    2017-01-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 109 - Mark Shriver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Absolutely not. I mean, you know, and he lost the two elections he ran in, so he ran for vice president in 1972 and got crushed, and then he ran in 76 and lost pretty quickly in the presidential primaries that, you know, obviously Jimmy Carter eventually won. But I don't think that he then said, you know, he never whined about it. He never complained about it. He never said he got shortchanged about it. And any conversation I ever had. And I think that there's a difference between being sad or feeling like you've a loser as compared to his approach to life, which was joy filled. Because I think he really did see every interaction as a chance to interact with God.”

    2017-01-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 109 - Mark Shriver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “You mean by President Clinton? Yeah. When I don't think he ever did that. And I think what he was really interested in was the bigger issue.”

    2017-01-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 109 - Mark Shriver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “He was, but I think he wasn't a traditional politician in that regard. You know, I don't think he thought that aspiring to hire office or was the end all on the be-all. I don't think he thought that if he lost an election, it was worse than death. It was just another experience in life. And I know that sounds kind of corny, you know, in an Institute of Politics. No, I haven't.”

    2017-01-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 109 - Mark Shriver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “I think he had a really good relationship. I know he had a very good relationship with Mayor Daly. When he died, I actually got a picture of the two of them in which Mayor Daly signed a great note to my pop that hung up on the wall in his house, bedroom area for a number of years. And I think he had a great relationship, you know, in the Catholic Church here. He did a lot of work with Martin Luther King to integrate the Catholic hospitals and the Catholic schools. And as you know, David, he was in charge of the Civil Rights Division in Senator Kennedy's presidential campaign because of his good relationship with King and Abernathy and other African-American leaders, not only in Chicago but around the country. So I think he really saw the energy and the entrepreneurship and a lot of the issues at play in America in Chicago in the 50s and then took it to a national scale, obviously under the Kennedy administration. And then implemented the creation of Head Start legal services for the poor, job corps,”

    2017-01-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 109 - Mark Shriver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “And he had obviously headed east because of President Kennedy asking him to run the Peace Corps. I'm sorry, I cut you off. No, no.”

    2017-01-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 109 - Mark Shriver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “Very much so. Tell me about your dad. He was the head of the Chicago Board of Education. He was the head of the merchandise mart. He loved Chicago. And I think if things had gone different ways, he probably would have ended up staying in the city because every time I came back to visit my college buddies who were from Chicago, a lot of them from Chicago for the Sardin Shriver Legal Center here run by John Bauman, the great John Bauman. Dad would come back here for those on an annual event. He loves Chicago and I think love the energy and the idealism really, the entrepreneurship of the people in Chicago.”

    2017-01-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 109 - Mark Shriver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “Well, I mean, are we talking about college? And if we're talking about college, it's not to catch up. Talk to me. You wrote a touching”

    2017-01-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 109 - Mark Shriver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “My father and mother treated you the same as they would treat the waitress at their favorite restaurant or the cardinal from Washington, DC or the president of the United States. So I think they saw every moment as a way to interact with God. Every interaction was, you know, God was present or God is nowhere. God's in everything or God's nowhere. So I think they saw God in everything, like St. Ignatius, the guy who started the Jesuits, believed. So to me, you know, and my friends, I was blessed with great friends. And, you know, if I ever said, hey, my uncle, Senator Kennedy or my uncle was president Kennedy, they'd be like, so what? You know, let's pass the, you know, catch up. And I never did that.”

    2017-01-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 109 - Mark Shriver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “Yes. Well, I mean, you know, to me, it was completely normal because obviously I didn't know any other experience. And my mom and dad never created an atmosphere where we were ever used terms like America's royal family or any concept dead things were going to be given to you because of who you were related to. I mean, they went to work every day, you know, literally never took days off for sickness. They went to mass every day. So, you know, when you see your parents going to mass every day and kneeling and asking for help and guidance, you realize that they have problems and that they need help. And yet they went to work every day to try to make the world a little bit better of a place. So there was never around when I was growing up that you had to go into politics or that, you know, we were above anybody else. And the way they interacted with people, I think also reinforced that message.”

    2017-01-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 109 - Mark Shriver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source