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Few Americans have touched as many lives as Sargent Shriver. As the first director of the Peace Corps, the head of the War on Poverty, and as president of the Special Olympics, he helped millions of Americans seize a sense of almost infinite possibilities and he brought the promise of America into countless corners around the globe. Sarge often said that ‘freedom is a crusade,’ and for him it was that and much more. He was an extraordinary man and an extraordinary public servant who never lost the idealism that grand achievements were a question of willpower, not capacity. 

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