Today, the spirit of the Peace Corps shines in dozens of ways, in dozens of places: in VISTA, in the Job Corps, in the Teacher Corps, in the Neighborhood Youth Corps, in State and local programs of youth service throughout the Nation.
Remarks at Georgetown University at the Signing of a Bill Extending the Peace Corps Act
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Sometimes it is your job to go out and scout the road, to encounter and overcome the difficulties that always accompany such a vast new venture as this.
We are grateful for the impressive gesture of good will and partnership that you have extended to us.
We are so happy to be here in sunny San Antonio today to spend this preeminent national holiday.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-nine and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-third.
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