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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Address by Sargent Shriver to the Experiment in International Living, December 7, 1965
- Shriver, Sargent; Cross-cultural transition
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's address to the Dinner of the Experiment in International Living, New York, December 7, 1965.
- 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
- 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
- Speech at the National Conference on Religion and Race, January 15, 1963
- Shriver, Sargent; Peace Corps Directors; Diversity; Religion
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's speech at the National Conference on Religion and Race held in Chicago, Illinois, January 15, 1963.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Remarks by Sargent Shriver before the 71st annual convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, June 26, 1962
- Shriver, Sargent; Women's movement
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's remarks before the 71st annual convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, held in Washington, DC on June 26, 1962.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- 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 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
- 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
- Woven History Empowering Women in Guatemala
- Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD); Business development
- Volunteer Stories