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....Michelle Obama was greeted by a standing ovation when she honored the late Eunice Shriver at the ESPYs on Wednesday night. “I am here tonight to honor a remarkable woman.... .... the second award show appearance Obama has made recently. She honored Chance the Rapper in a video message at the BET Awards last month...

Alexandria, VA. - Feminists for Life of America remembers the many contributions of Sargent Shriver who died in a Bethesda, Maryland, hospital on January 18, 2011, at 95 years old. Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr., graduated from Yale in 1938 and Yale Law School in 1941. After Shriver married Eunice Kennedy in 1953, they settled in Chicago. Shriver was a strong advocate for civil rights and integration, who persuaded then-candidate and U.S. senator "Jack" Kennedy to personally call the King family after Martin Luther King, Jr., was jailed in Georgia. Shriver was appointed the first director of the Peace Corps by...

Two of the last three Kennedys have taken centre stage this week. Yesterday, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics, died in Hyannis, Mass. Today, Senator Ted Kennedy is being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. For the last of the Kennedy sons, aged 77 and suffering from brain cancer, the ceremony in Washington is something of a valedictory. After the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, the Kennedy family had two paths before it -- one represented by Eunice and her husband, Sargent, and the other by the last surviving brother, Ted.

Sen. Edward Kennedy’s absence from two high-profile public events is raising worries that the country’s longest congressional champion for health reform may not be available to shepherd it through the Senate this fall. Kennedy, 77, who has been battling a particularly deadly form of brain cancer since a diagnosis last May, did not attend a White House ceremony on Wednesday at which he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the country’s highest civilian honor. He also did not attend a Friday funeral for his sister Eunice Shriver, who died on Tuesday. The senator’s absences were particularly notable given...

A public wake will be held for Eunice Kennedy Shriver from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday at Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville on Cape Cod, according to a person familiar with the arrangements. A private funeral will follow on Friday at St. Francis Xavier Church in Hyannis, according to the person, who requested anonymity because they had not been authorized by the Kennedy family to speak about the arrangements. The funeral will be by invitation only and has been tentatively scheduled for 10 a.m., the person said.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver Dies at 88 By KRISTINA PETERSON Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a member of the famed Kennedy clan who devoted much of her life to children's charities, including founding the Special Olympics, died at the age of 88. Known for her devotion to the mentally disabled community and in particular her mentally disabled sister Rosemary, Ms. Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics in 1968. For years before, she had invited mentally disabled children to a summer camp held in the backyard of her Maryland home. From the first group of 35 children, the Special Olympics grew into an organization...

Relatives of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of President Kennedy, were summoned to a Massachusetts hospital Monday, a source close to the family told CNN. "It's minute to minute right now," the source said. Shriver, 88, founder of the Special Olympics, has been in the hospital for several days, her family said, and her relatives were summoned after she suffered a setback, the source said. Some members of the family flew in to Cape Cod Hospital last week to be with Shriver, including her daughter, Maria Shriver, and her husband, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a source said earlier. She was...

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a sister of President John F. Kennedy and a longtime champion for the disabled, was in critical condition Friday at a Massachusetts hospital. The 88-year-old Shriver's husband, 1972 vice presidential candidate and former Peace Corps director R. Sargent Shriver, gathered at her side along with their children and grandchildren at Cape Cod Hospital in Barnstable, said family spokesman Stephen Rivers. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the husband of Shriver's daughter, Maria, was also there, said Aaron McLear, a spokesman for the governor.

CAPE COD, Mass. – A family spokesman says Eunice Kennedy Shriver is in critical condition at a Massachusetts hospital. Spokesman Stephen Rivers said Friday that the 88-year-old sister of President John F. Kennedy is surrounded by her family at Cape Cod Hospital. He says her husband, children and all her grandchildren are at her side.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the 86-year-old sister of President John F. Kennedy, who founded the Special Olympics and championed the rights of the mentally retarded, has been hospitalized. A spokesman said Friday that Shriver's family was at her side at a Massachusetts hospitla. Shriver is also the sister of Sen. Edward Kennedy and the mother-in-law of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was no immediately clear what ailment, if any, was affecting her. It was also not immediate clear how long Shriver has been hospitalized. Shriver is also the sister of Sen. Edward Kennedy and the mother-in-law of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger,...