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- Women in the Peace Corps
- Women's movement
- Speech prepared for delivery before the annual luncheon, YWCA Board of Directors, October 18, 1961, Waldorf, Astoria, New York City. Women in the Peace Corps by Sargent Shriver.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Women in the Peace Corps
- Women in Peace Corps
- Full-text of an early Peace Corps marketing brochure--copyright date is unknown but it appears to be from the 1960s.
- Brochures
- A Towering Task (February 1, 1961 draft)
- Wiggins, Warren
- Full-text of the February 1, 1961 draft of Warren Wiggins' essay 'The Towering Task.' This essay discusses the early history of the concept of the Peace Corps and outlines Wiggins' suggestions for implementing Peace Corps at a starting level of...
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Peace Corps Application, 1993
- Volunteer recruitment; Volunteer selection
- Full text of a 1993 Peace Corps application.
- Brochures
- Statement of Sargent Shriver concerning Peace Corps and the United Nations, May 1962
- United Nations Volunteers
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's May, 1962 statement concerning inquiries: "to what extent, whether either in theory or in practice, members of the Peace Corps are working for, controlled by, or guided by agencies or employees of the United Nations?...
- Press Briefings
- Remarks by Sargent Shriver at Peace Corps' fourth anniversary assembly, September 22, 1965
- Shriver, Sargent; Volunteerism; Vietnam war
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's remarks at Peace Corps' fourth anniversary assembly, State Department, September 22, 1965.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Meet the Press, December 15, 1963
- Shriver, Sargent; Peace Corps Directors; Kennedy, John F.-- Assassination; Budget; Community development
- Full text transcript of the December 15, 1963 edition of the television program Meet the Press. Sargent Shriver was the featured guest and he discussed the challenges and accomplishments of the Peace Corps during its early years.
- Press Briefings
- Address by Sargent Shriver to the Foreign Policy Association, December 11, 1963
- Shriver, Sargent; Peace Corps Directors
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's address to the Foreign Policy Association in New York City, December 11, 1963.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Address by Sargent Shriver at Albert Einstein School of Medicine, November 15, 1964
- Shriver, Sargent; Doctors; Nurses;
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's address at Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Yeshiva University, New York City, November 15, 1964.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Annual Roosevelt memorial day address delivered by Sargent Shriver, May 30, 1963
- Shriver, Sargent; Cross-cultural transition
- Full text of the Annual Roosevelt memorial day address delivered by Sargent Shriver, May 30, 1963.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Peace Corps National Conference of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
- Returned Volunteer Services
- 25th Anniversary of: The Peace Corps National Conference of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers & Staff September 20, 1986. Washington, D.C.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Transcript of background press and radio news briefing, March 6, 1961
- Press and media; Volunteer recruitment; Volunteer selection; Vietnam war; Volunteer compensation;
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's briefing to the press held on March 6, 1961. Shriver introduced members of the original Peace Corps task force, and fielded topics on a range of questions about the initial plans for how the Peace Corps would operate.
- Press Briefings
- Press release announcing appointment of Sargent Shriver as first Director of the Peace Corps, March 4, 1961
- Press and media; Peace Corps Directors; Kennedy, John F.;
- Full text of the March 4, 1961 White House press release announcing the appointment of Sargent Shriver as first Director of the Peace Corps. Also provides brief biographies of early Peace Corps staff members.
- Press Briefings
- We Still Do
- Peace Corps Directors; Volunteer recruitment; Volunteer selection
- Full text of Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn's December 1967 speech delivered at Georgetown University's Hall of Nations.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Peace Corps Times 50th Edition, 2011
- Newsletters--2000s; Anniversaries
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (50th Edition, 2011).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Times (Fall 2005)
- Newsletters--2000s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (Fall, 2005).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Times (Summer 2007)
- Newsletters--2000s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (Summer, 2007).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Times (Issue 2, 2008)
- Newsletters--2000s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (Issue 2, 2008).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Times (Issue 3, 2009)
- Newsletters--2000s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (Issue 3, 2009).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Times (Issue 4, 2010)
- Newsletters--2000s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (Issue 4, 2010).
- Newsletters