November 2, 1960 - Senator John F. Kennedy speech at Cow Palace, San Francisco, CA
''I therefore propose that our inadequate efforts in this area be supplemented by a peace corps of talented young men and women, willing and able to serve their country in this fashion for 3 years as an alternative or as a supplement to peacetime selective service well qualified......
We cannot discontinue training our young men as soldiers of war, but we also want them to be ambassadors of peace. ''