A newly conceived Peace Corps is winning friends and helping people in fourteen countries--supplying trained and dedicated young men and women, to give these new nations a hand in building a society, and a glimpse of the best that is in our country.
Kennedy introduces the Peace Corps as a means to assist developing nations and foster goodwill.
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