We can mobilize this talent through the formation of a National Peace Corps, enlisting the services of all those with the desire and capacity to help foreign lands meet their urgent needs for trained personnel.
Kennedy proposes the creation of a National Peace Corps to mobilize American talent for international development.
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But the world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.
Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure.
For the troubles of a world organization merely reflect the troubles of the world itself.
For this is the most urgent task confronting the Congress in 1963.