vice presidential race, calling these orders 'the best thing that ever happened to me'. In her book Ten Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Went Out Into The Real World (2000), Shriver says that she became passionate about broadcast journalism after being sent to the back of the campaign plane with the press corps while volunteering for her father's 1972 U.S. Shriver is also a cousin of Caroline Kennedy.Ĭareer Media career and advocacy Shriver is a fourth cousin of tennis player Pam Shriver. Shriver permanently returned from France to Bethesda, Maryland, USA in 1970, where she attended Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart high school and graduated in 1973, later attending Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York for two years, then transferring into a Bachelor of Arts degree in American studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., graduating in June 1977. Shriver spent her middle school years living in Paris, France, save for a brief period where Shriver's family temporarily moved to Chicago, Illinois in the summer of 1968 following Eunice Kennedy Shriver's work with the Special Olympics. A Roman Catholic, she is of mostly Irish and German descent. Senator Ted Kennedy, and six other prominent siblings. Shriver was born in Chicago, Illinois, on November 6, 1955, the second child of the politician Sargent Shriver and activist Eunice Kennedy.

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