Nightly News | January 17, 2011
1964: LBJ taps Shriver to run War on Poverty
In this conversation recorded Febuary 1, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson tells Sargent Shriver, then serving as first director of the Peace Corps, that he has been appointed to lead the government's War on Poverty.
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