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When people here can be diverted from such problems as Berlin or Laos, school bills or foreign aid, and made to talk about the Peace Corps, the first reaction is one of caution. They are cautious because they know all too well both the immensity of the task the Peace Corps is undertaking, and the profusion of problems it will have to solve...
...just as the first reaction is caution, the second is hope. Many mention the spirit and idealism of the youth who have flooded the office with applications. Moyers thinks it goes beyond that. Speaking of his own office staff he said, "Nobody is here who didn't ask to be here. Adults haven't been given a chance to answer President Kennedy's challenge 'to do something for your country.' There is a great reservoir of energy and talent that needs to be channeled. Not only the youth want to be challenged...
...caution is justified. The Peace Corps has yet to send one single person abroad, and the first ones will not go until fall. Problems of training, housing selection and a hundred other things still have to be worked out--and most will sot be solved except by experience. The Corps is still operating under extcutive order, and has not even been sanctioned by Congress...
...with bomb-twisted steel and wrecked buildings, but the site's radioactivity has notably declined since the start of the test moratorium. "Hot" debris has been removed from the dangerous places where bombs exploded; in some cases several inches of soil have been scraped up with bulldozers. But caution has not relaxed. All workers wear radiation-detecting devices and are carefully checked in and out of their jobs...
...convention made him rein in his rhetoric. The plain fact is that a great number of the letters written by the old buckaroo of the open road, the advocate of "the broad masculine manners of these States," were nothing more or less than love letters to young men. The caution he used in this clandestine correspondence seems to have carried over into his other letters...