Here’s a look into three presidents who garnered both praise and criticism during their post-White House years.
What David Baur did was join the very first group of U.S. Peace Corps volunteers to be deployed overseas. “I started out as a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa,” Baur recalls. At age 22 he went ...
In the 1970s, jeans weren’t considered presidential. Former President Gerald R. Ford, a square-jawed Republican, wore stocky ...
As president in 1961, John F. Kennedy asked Hoover to be the honorary chairman of the National Advisory Council for his global humanitarian group, the Peace Corps, although the 86-year-old former ...
Among the provisions of that act was the creation of Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) as a domestic Peace Corps in which volunteers in state or local agencies were set up to perform duties ...
I first met Carter in June 1974 when he was governor of Georgia and attended a Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas.
U.S. awards celebrate outstanding achievements in areas like bravery, science, arts, and public service, promoting unity and ...
As Shanya McWhinney recently turned 26, she celebrated under the starry skies of South Africa. Just being there was a gift in ...