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...first act, Lyndon marched in with Sargent Shriver and Jack Hood Vaughn, his nominee to succeed Shriver as head of the Peace Corps (see following story). That ceremony was swiftly followed-all in the White House-by Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach's resume of Johnson-proposed constitutional amendments, Robert McNamara's rundown of defense expenditures, a discussion of tax revision by Treasury Secretary Fowler, and brief appearances by House Speaker McCormack, Senate Majority Leader Mansfield and Vice President Humphrey...
...Sargent Shriver," said Washington wags last week, "is only a corporal now." Shriver had not exactly been demoted, since he had been pleading for six months to be relieved of one of his two jobs. Finally, Lyndon Johnson decided that Shriver, who had been director of the Peace Corps since its inception in 1961, should now devote full time to the 16-month-old Office of Economic Opportunity, which he has also headed from the start...
After assigning Shriver to the war on poverty, the Great Society program nearest his own heart, Johnson named as Peace Corps director Jack Hood Vaughn, 45, former U.S. Ambassador to Panama and, since March 1965, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. Before his ambassadorial assignment, Vaughn had directed the Peace Corps' Latin American program and will now, as Johnson said it, "return to his first love." 149 Victories. A slight (5 ft. 8 in., 150 lbs.), combative redhead, Vaughn was reared in Michigan, where he spent so much of his youth boxing that he did not graduate...
...twice wounded on Okinawa, and was eventually discharged as a captain. He earned his master's degree at the University of Michigan in 1941, then spent ten years in Bolivia, Costa Rica and Panama as a U.S. Information Service officer and coordinator of U.S. aid projects. In 1961, Shriver grabbed him. Says Vaughn: "The Peace Corps idea had great appeal to me, and the people I knew who were putting this idea into effect appealed to me even more...
Plainly, with Shriver's departure the first, handcrafted era of the Peace Corps is ended. Under his guidance, says Wiggins, "we have transited from a feather in the cap of America to a large-scale operation of sufficient human resources to be of consequence in the changing nations." Now, adds Vaughn, "its character is established. My job is to help it continue to do well." But Vaughn's task may prove tougher than it looks...