In the summer of 1962. the President asked then Attorney General Robert Kennedy to study the possible creation of a domestic volunteer agency. Within a few months. the preliminary report documented the need for a volunteer corps whose mission was to become allies of the poor in ending the oppressive cycle of permanent poverty. A Cabinetlevel study group was formed in November and concluded that volunteers would work in the ghettoes. in Appalachia. and in migrant camps. in Indian reservationswherever 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. Hearings were held. but the National Service Corps remained a proposal until 1965 when it was incorporated into the antipoverty program.