Up in the Air
Shriver accepted the job of Peace Corps director but was by no means swept up in the idealism of it. "There's a great difference between a noble idea, no matter how well conceived, and the execution of that idea in practical, realistic, down-to-earth terms," Shriver said. "I had misgivings. I lay awake at night." In this photo, the director works on a speech while aboard a plane flying over Pakistan.

• Sargent Shriver, 1915-2011