English subtitles for clip: File:JFK Establishment of the Peace Corps.ogg

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I have today signed an executive order providing for the establishment

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of a Peace Corps on a temporary pilot basis.

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I am also sending to Congress a message posing authorization of a permanent Peace Corps.

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This Corps will be a pool of trained men and women sent overseas by the United States

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government or through private institutions and organizations to help foreign countries

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meet their urgent needs for skilled manpower.

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It is our hope to have between 500 to 1,000 people in the field by the end of this year.

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We will send Americans abroad who are qualified to do a job.

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We will send those abroad who are committed to the concept which motivates the Peace Corps.

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It will not be easy.

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None of the men and women will be paid a salary.

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They will live at the same level as the citizens of the country which they are sent to,

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doing the same work, eating the same food, speaking the same language.

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We are going to put particular emphasis on those men and women

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who have skills in teaching, agriculture and in health.

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I am hopeful that it will be a source of satisfaction to Americans

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and a contribution to world peace.