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- 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: the living legacy of John F. Kennedy
- Volunteer recruitment; Wofford, Harris
- Full text of a brochure featuring the recollections of several notable former Peace Corps staff members and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, including Harris Wofford, Donna Shalala, Maureen Orth and others. Although no exact date of publication is...
- Brochures
- Making a world of difference: the toughest job you'll ever love
- Volunteer recruitment
- Full text of a 1997 recruiting brochure.
- Brochures
- Peace Corps leader proposes massive volunteer program to help solve U.S. domestic problems
- Vaughn, Jack; Peace Corps Directors; Volunteerism; VISTA
- This February 13, 1968 press release outlines Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn's suggestions for increasing domestic volunteerism in the United States.
- Press Briefings
- 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
- Getting to Sur
- Transportation; Pre-service Training (PST)
- Staff Stories
- Teachers in the Peace Corps
- Teachers and students; Education
- Full-text of an early Peace Corps marketing brochure--copyright date is unknown but it appears to be from the 1960s.
- Brochures
- High school students and the Peace Corps
- Teachers and students
- Full-text of an early Peace Corps marketing brochure--copyright date is unknown but it appears to be from the 1960s.
- Brochures
- Remarks by Sargent Shriver at the commencement exercises, Kansas State University, June 3, 1962
- Shriver, Sargent; Peace Corps Directors; Universities
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's commencement address at Kansas State University on June 3, 1962.
- 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
- Speech by Sargent Shriver before the Commonwealth Club of California, October 11, 1963
- Shriver, Sargent; Peace Corps Directors; Business development
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's speech before the Commonwealth Club of California, October 11, 1963.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- 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
- Peace Corps speaks for itself
- Shriver, Sargent; International service organizations;
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's speech entitled "The Peace Corps Speaks for Itself," delivered to the New York Herald Tribune Youth Forum on March 24, 1961.
- 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
- Remembering Sarge: One Year Later - A Conversation with Mark Shriver
- Shriver, Sargent
- Mark Shriver visits Peace Corps to pay tribute to his father and first director of the Peace Corps, the late Sargent Shriver, on the one-year anniversary of his passing in a speech to special guests and staff at Peace Corps headquarters.
- 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
- Why Johnny Can't
- Peace Corps Directors; Vaughn, Jack; Women in Peace Corps
- Full text of Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn's September, 1966 speech entitled 'Why Johnny Can't' given at Town Hall in Los Angeles.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- The Peace Corps: a pilot program for American development
- Peace Corps Directors; Vaughn, Jack; Volunteer compensation; Volunteer recruitment; Volunteer selection; Volunteerism; Training design and evaluation
- Full text of Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn's February 13, 1968 address at Harvard Business School.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters