Controversy. Several people think that Shepard Smith is either gay or possibly gay. He was previously married to a woman named Virginia Donald for about 6 years and does not have any children.
The Peace Corps is one of the smallest instruments in the foreign policy toolkit of the United States. It is a âboutiqueâ agency with a superb reputation. The Bush administration has proposed doubling the number of Peace Corps volunteers working in developing countries to 14,000 by 2007, still below the 1966 peak of over 15,000 volunteers. Bipartisan support for the Peace Corps is strong and its cost is miniscule.
John F. Kennedy had not been in office an hour when he did something no other president had ever done: he asked Americans, in peacetime, to volunteer to serve their country for purely idealistic reasons. To this end, he immediately set out to create the Peace Corps.It called upon young Americans to fan out across the globe to live alongside the people of the Third World and bring them, without regard to ideology or propaganda, vitally needed skills in health care, agriculture and education.he exam, as the President well understood, was the first of the daunting challenges facing members of the Peace Corps: Less than two weeks later, the results were in: of the 3,540 tested, 27 Americans were chosen to start training for a world-wide assault on poverty, illiteracy and disease.