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'''Addendum''': The Peace Corps was not, is not, and has never been "an anti-communist agency." I'm not sure where you got that from. That's never been the general thrust of the Peace Corps, ever. [[User:ChuckR|ChuckR]] 00:27, 9 November 2009 (EST)
'''Addendum''': The Peace Corps was not, is not, and has never been "an anti-communist agency." I'm not sure where you got that from. That's never been the general thrust of the Peace Corps, ever. [[User:ChuckR|ChuckR]] 00:27, 9 November 2009 (EST)
::::Joe Kennedy was pretty conservative on most issues--indeed that was a major reason so many liberals distrusted JFK. As for issues of morality, JFK always supported the most conservative moral position in his day as represented by the Catholic Church. On the Peace Corps see what the historians say: "The Peace Corps was not designed as an overseas antipoverty program; '''it was to be a weapon in the Cold War arsenal''', one President Kennedy hoped would demonstrate to the world that "a new generation of Americans has taken over this country ... young Americans [who will] serve the cause of freedom as servants of peace around the world, working for freedom as the communists work for their system." quote from ''The Politics of the Peace Corps & Vista'' By T. Zane Reeves (1988). Page 20. [[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 01:25, 9 November 2009 (EST)