Columnist on his friendship with ‘St. Eunice’
August 11th, 2009Writing in the Washington Post, Colman McCarthy says he met Eunice Shriver at a pickup basketball game in her backyard more than 30 years ago. An excerpt:
She truly believed, and she instilled in those [Special Olympics] events, the idea that it’s not what you achieve in life, it’s what you overcome. A morally driven and politically astute woman, she sprung open doors globally for the mentally disabled and opened minds that had too long been closed to accepting people with Down syndrome and other disabilities.
… Eunice Shriver had no taste for fame-seeking. She had no publicist, no agent, no handler. All she had was energy, of a steeled kind that never stalled out. It was Olympian energy, special in its grace.
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