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- President Kennedy and Sargent Shriver in the Rose Garden
- Peace Corps Directors; Shriver, Sargent; Kennedy, John F.
- This photo shows Sargent Shriver and President John F. Kennedy walking down the White House colonnade to the Rose Garden in 1961.
- Agency Photos
- The Cause of the Rebels
- Peace Corps Directors; Universities
- Excerpts from a September 26, 1968 speech given by Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn at a meeting of the American Management Association
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Round One
- Peace Corps Directors; Vaughn, Jack
- Full text of Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn's May 4, 1966 speech entitled 'Round One' given at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. Vaughn discusses his impressions of Peace Corps after three years as the agency's Director, and...
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- 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
- I didn't join the Peace Corps for the greatest reasons
- Public Service Announcements; Marketing campaigns; Volunteer recruitment
- Peace Corps Public Service Announcement from 1968. Prepared by Young and Rubicam, Inc., in conjunction with the Ad Council.
- Posters and Graphics
- 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
- 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
- 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 at the University of California, Berkeley, October 4, 1967
- Shriver, Sargent; Peace Corps Directors; Volunteerism; Vietnam war; VISTA
- Full text of Address at the University of California, Berkeley, October 4, 1967.
- 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
- Summary of Report to the President on the Peace Corps
- Volunteer selection; Volunteer recruitment; Technical training; Shriver, Sargent; Press and media; Kennedy, John F.;
- This report outlines Sargent Shriver's initial assessment of how the concept of the Peace Corps could and should be implemented. The summary report was released to the media on March 5, 1961 by the Office of the White House Press Secretary.
- Press Briefings
- 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
- 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
- A Stove I Built for a Village Woman and Her Mother
- Work; Community Development
- I built this stove along with my counterpart for this woman and her mother. It uses only a fraction of the wood that an open fire uses and is made out of easily obtainable materials.
- Volunteer Photos
- My Journey to Peace Corps: 1961-2011
- Kennedy, John F.
- Volunteer Stories