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Collin looks into the lives of Eunice Kennedy Shriver & Sargent Shriver. Eunice is a member of the Kennedy family and is the founder of the Special Olympics ,which she started in 1968 to empower people with intellectual disabilities to find their full potential through sports and competitions (John F. Kennedy Presidential Museum & Library). Sargent Shriver met Eunice in 1947 while he was working for Joseph P. Kennedy, her father. They married in 1953 at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. He was the director of The Peace Corps from 1961-1966 and the 1972 vice-presidential candidate under the nominee George McGovern. They were destroyed in a landslide by President Nixon in the 1972 election.