beemusthave been my cole white house to cover it at that ceremony would i have thought about eunice kennedy shriver in 1984? i'm guessing i would have thought she is president kennedy's sister. sargent shriver's wife. maria shriver's mother. i wrote this biography in part to restore eunice kennedy shriver which is remarkable for so many things beyond the founding of the special olympics. so who is eunice? calling it this was a stretch for me. the publishers that you cannot call it misses the shriver. but everyone in her life, who knew her for decades called her mrs. shriver. her daughterher daughters-in-lar mrs. shriver and i was sure if we called it the eunice there would be a thunderbolt that would hit me. but eunice it is and she was. she was the often overlooked middle child of joe and rose. she wasn't old enough to be part of the golden trio. they were the glamorous ones. rosemary was tucked in the middle had forgotten in her own way so she wound up at the kids table most of the time, supervising her younger siblings patricia, bobby, teddy. she found it an advantage to be overlooked in that wa