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On the recordJuly 11, 1995
Of course, as I would remind the gentleman, I was in high school that year. Sorry. But that is the kind of reaction that you got. When I was up country one time to go to a little tiny store, literally 200 miles in the interior of Africa and there is a picture of Mohammed Ali, another great American who is probably the most famous person in the world, along with President Kennedy. And I said that he was from my home town. And there were a lot of questions, they wanted to discuss it. That is what we really get with the Peace Corps.
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Chris Ward
Labour Party
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Discussing the impact of the Peace Corps during a speech.

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