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S2 Ep 2 - Mr. Poverty

LBJ's War by PRX

Feb 11, 202025:11Society & Culture

"I didn't know a damn thing about poverty and didn't want the job," Sargent Shriver would later recall, of his conversation with the president, “and I told him so.” But it was no use: Lyndon Johnson had fixed on Shriver...

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S2 Ep 2 - Mr. Poverty is an episode from LBJ's War by PRX. "I didn't know a damn thing about poverty and didn't want the job," Sargent Shriver would later recall, of his conversation with the president, “and I told him so.” But it was no us...

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Published Feb 11, 2020, 25:11 long, audio available.