This administration may forfeit its claim to the allegiance of the youth of this Nation and the poor of this Nation if it continues to advocate the death of this program. The idea for a domestic peace corps was discussed by President Kennedy In 1960 and then he named a Cabinetlevel Study Group to consider its creation. The study concluded that the volunteer corps would work in the ghettos. in Appalachia. and with the migrants and the Indianswherever the dispossessed of our land were struggling for a better life. In the State of the Union Address in 1963. the "prospect of a domestic Peace Corps" was announced and a month later the President sent to Congress a message on youth. which said: The logic and value of a National Service Corps has been demonstrated by the work and success of our Peace Corps overseas. Although the U.S. is the wealthiest nation the world has ever known. the poverty of millions provides fertile fields for those citizens with the desire and the ability to be of assistance.
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