Sargent Shriver

He picked Thomas Eagleton as running mate, then dumped him after learning Eagleton had received electroshock therapy for depression.

The replacement, Sargent Shriver, never gained traction.

Nixon campaigned on peace with honor in Vietnam, détente with China and the Soviet Union, and domestic stability.

He’d opened relations with China, signed arms control treaties with the Soviets, and appeared presidential.

Gifford, okay.

Of Kathy, former husband of Kathy Lee,

right? Well, she is the widow of him.

The widow of

He was governor from 2011 to 2021 during the COVID crisis, which is what we probably know him most for.

Andrew Cuomo, not Mary Carey.

Andrew Cuomo, the husband, was also Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Clinton.

They have three children.

The American public did not want somebody that that was meant, that that was, that that was that mentally vulnerable.

And Eagleton was kicked off the ticket by McGovern, and they chose a Kennedy in-law named Sargent Shriver.

Do you know about Sargent Shriver, or is that before your time? You've, you've heard.

What else do you know about Sargent Shriver? He was one of the Kennedys' husbands.

Anything else you know about him? None of it.

Um, he's Maria Shriver's father.

He, mo- most people in America admired him at the time, and surely I did, and my family did.

And his brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, started the, um, the, um, uh, what do you call it? The, uh- Draft? The, uh, no.

[laughs] No.

Uh, he wasn't a sergeant.

Uh, uh, Sarg- That guy started the Peace Corps? He started the Peace Corps.

Yep.

His brother-in-law.

And a buddy of mine named Eddie Bechen had gone into the Peace Corps straight out of high school.