The new presidential administration launched the Peace Corps in 1961, fulfilling one of John F. Kennedy’s campaign promises.

The scene was the Great Kremlin Hall within whose floodlit, white-marble walls Russian history has unrolled in war and peace. Before the admiring gaze of 1,378 Supreme Soviet delegates, of his wife ...

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