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Did you know? — On this day in 1961 JFK established the Peace Corp.
During John F. Kennedy’s historic campaign, he proposed that the United States should create a “new” army; an army, or rather a group of gracious civilians who would volunteer to help underdeveloped nations. The Peace Corp was founded out of this very concept. It was issued as a trial program that was established as a permanent program just a few months later.
I think in many ways it is the most important campaign since 1933, mostly because of the problems which press upon the United States, and the opportunities which will be presented to us in the 1960s. The opportunity must be seized, through the judgment of the President, and the vigor of the executive, and the cooperation of the Congress. Through these I think we can make the greatest possible difference.
How many of you who are going to be doctors, are willing to spend your days in Ghana? Technicians or engineers, how many of you are willing to work in the Foreign Service and spend your lives traveling around the world? On your willingness to do that, not merely to serve one year or two years in the service, but on your willingness to contribute part of your life to this country, I think will depend the answer whether a free society can compete. I think it can! And I think Americans are willing to contribute. But the effort must be far greater than we have ever made in the past.
— John F. Kennedy
(see more — JFK’s Run for the White House: Unpublished Photos)
