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.
â¢ More alumni from the past decade were minorities than in the 1960s: 14 percent in the 2000s compared with 9 percent in the agencyâs first decade. Currently 17 percent of corps members serving overseas are nonwhite. See the full report, âA Call to Peace: Perspectives of Volunteers on the Peace Corps at 50.â.