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The American Interest
What’s Wrong with the Peace Corps? Ryan Rommann
“I am a Peace Corps Volunteer.” Like 98 percent of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, I was proud to declare this and believe my two-year service was worthwhile. I grew professionally and personally, and I did some good. But the program is broken in many ways.
More than 210,000 Americans have served as volunteers in 139 countries since the program’s founding in 1961. John F. Kennedy envisioned the Peace Corps as a call to service for qualified Americans to venture abroad and help developing countries. It represented an idealized world of humanitarianism in a time of Cold War tensions and racial segregation. Today, more than a half century later, neither the sentiment nor the program has changed. If the program is to improve and meet its admirable ambitions, we must rigorously evaluate, adapt and abandon some of the core bel
Dec. 17, 2020
Every Friday evening for the last 19 years, Mark Shields and I have gathered to talk politics on the “PBS NewsHour.” When people come up to me to discuss our segment, sometimes they mention the things we said to each other, but more often they mention how we clearly feel about each other the affection, friendship and respect. We’ve had thousands of disagreements over the years, but never a second of acrimony. Mark radiates a generosity of spirit that improves all who come within his light.
This week, at 83, and after 33 years total on the show, Mark announced he was stepping back from his regular duties. Friday will be our final regular segment together. I want to not only pay tribute to him here, but also to capture his conception of politics, because it’s different from the conception many people carry in their heads these days.
i thought, you know, if these beautiful passionate kennedys would show it by a phone call, it would mean something to coretta. wafford contacts kennedy s brother-in-law, sergeant shriver who is in charge of civil rights. hello. wafford asks if kennedy will call coretta to offer support. he said it will only work if i present the idea to kennedy, without any of the staff hearing. shriver knows kennedy s team will block anything that might cost them votes in the south. the kennedys were never great advocates of civil rights. generally they regarded it as a problem for their campaign. they would have preferred not to discuss it at all.
but that s not shriver s only problem. kennedy is about to leave on a plane. so, shriver had to race to the airport. behind the scenes, nixon tries to secure the release of his friend, dr. king. richard nixon wants to do something, and he calls the white house, and the white house refuses, they won t do it. nixon fails. can shriver succeed in his mission? shriver got there, but the staff was all around kennedy. shriver waits until kennedy is alone. all right, guys, let s go.