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Did you know? — On this day in 1961 JFK established the Peace Corp.
During John F. Kennedy’s historic campaign, he proposed that the United States should create a “new” army; an army, or rather a group of gracious civilians who would volunteer to help underdeveloped nations. The Peace Corp was founded out of this very concept. It was issued as a trial program that was established as a permanent program just a few months later.