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Capehart

Here's how to preserve the Kennedy ideal in Trump's America, from a Kennedy

Capehart

The Washington Post

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Mark Shriver, president of Save the Children Action Network, talks about the importance of our country's children, his father, Sargent Shriver, what it's like being a Kennedy and his quest to get an interview with the pope.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone. This is Jonathan Kapart. Welcome to K-pop.

0:07.0

Now, as the President of Save the Children Action Network, Mark Shriver's job is to ensure that

0:11.8

childhood poverty comes as close to the

0:14.5

front burner as possible, but he's having no luck getting through to president-elect

0:18.7

Donald Trump. I'm hopeful, I'm hopeful that we're going to get in and have

0:22.2

conversations, but it was the conversation about his I'm hopeful that we're going to get in and have conversations.

0:23.2

But it was the conversation about his two books, one on his father, the great Sergeant

0:27.7

Shriver, who among other things created the Peace Corps, and the other on Pope Francis

0:32.4

that elicited the most revealing responses.

0:35.0

Listen to what this sign of two prominent public service families has to say about them

0:40.0

and what it's like being a dark-haired version of his uncle,

0:43.5

the late President John F. Kennedy. Mark Shriver. Welcome to Cape Up. Thank you for having me, Jonathan. I'm

0:57.8

really glad that you are here. There is a lot to talk about that I want to talk about

1:04.1

politics to start.

1:06.7

You are, and correct me if I'm wrong,

1:08.6

are you President of Save the Children USA

1:11.2

or President of Save the Children Action Network both?

1:14.0

Save the Children Action Network.

1:16.0

I'm the president of that organization.

1:17.4

It's a 501c4 that saved the children created about three and a half years ago.

1:21.6

We needed to be more active in the political arena and that's what the 501c4 allows us to do.

1:27.0

It allows us to mobilize, to educate, to use communications strategically to pursue great policies, but also to engage in the political

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