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Financial support is the crucial limiting factor in the program, said Stookey. For the most part, corpsmen will have to pay for their own room, board, and transportation. A budget of $12,000 is needed to cover basic expenses as well as grants-in-aid to "talented men and women who need summer earnings to meet college fees...
Reuss, the original sponsor of the peace corps legislation in the House, cited teaching as the "first and foremost" job of peace corpsmen, but added "engineering, home economics, medicine--the list is as long as the list of needs in the underdeveloped countries...
...said, "will be a pool of trained men and women sent overseas by the U.S. Government or through private institutions and organizations to help foreign governments meet their urgent needs for skilled manpower." By the end of the year, the President hoped to have 500 to 1,000 trained corpsmen working abroad...
Accent on Youth. It will be an elite corps, with no room for capricious adventurers, Kennedy emphasized. Recruits will be screened, and only the most skilled, emotionally cool and dedicated workers will be selected. Corpsmen will serve without salary, will live inconspicuously. Their only compensation will be the satisfaction of doing a humanitarian job in the cause of peace, and the enrichment of living in foreign lands and working on a professional level that would be unthinkable for most people until they were 40 or more...
...Should Command? Corpsmen would go in teams of five to ten with a topnotch leader. The GHQ: a small, new Government agency, probably headed by President Kennedy's brother-in-law, R. Sargent Shriver Jr., 45, a Chicago businessman. The agency would supply cash, corpsmen and coordination for the two main arms of the operation. In the U.S., private groups, such as foundations, universities, or the American Friends Service Committee, would propose projects abroad. In the host country, a binational board would have power to pass on projects and set local corps policy. The estimated cost is roughly...