Peace Corps - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Peace Corps Index / Organizations Transcripts Macon Phillips ...AmeriCorps experience. I just think the Peace Corps experience is insane and awesome. Bu... Chuck Freedman ...Lafayette. After all that, I joined the Peace Corps , went to Palau, ended up living ther... ...me. Subsequent to that, I joined the Peace Corps and went to Palau right after college... ...because when I went into the Peace Corps . It was not a deferment, but my draf... ...Palau So what was it like being in the Peace Corps ? What kind of things did you do? ... ...to try to do at least two things that Peace Corps told me that turned out to be correct... ...organizing really all the way back in Peace Corps . That's when it started for me. ... ...Yes. She was the secretary up at the Peace Corps building. I knew her for a year and ... ...brought you to Hawaiʻi after the Peace Corps ? Well, I had worked at a communit... Show more... Bronwen Solyom ...a Danish group who were like the Peace Corps before the Peace Corps existed. An... ...were like the Peace Corps before the Peace Corps existed. And there were two Danis... Gayle Smith ...Private Investment Corporation], at the Peace Corps , at the Millennium Challeng... John Morton ...complicated and messy place. I was a Peace Corps volunteer before I became a prosecutor... ...entire life. I had started out in the Peace Corps . What I was going to do with the res... Denise O'Brien ...she was helping—it was similar to the Peace Corps —and we went there and he saw th... Christopher Dodd ...would've been intriguing. I was in the Peace Corps in Latin America. I spent a lot o... Chris Lu ...story in a book. They offered me the Peace Corps director. I said, “Okay, that sound... ...that sounds interesting. I'll be the Peace Corps director.” I thought I either want t... ...a good fit for me, never having been a Peace Corps volunteer. I knew the agency wel... ...ambassadorships—and then I passed up Peace Corps . The call came back in, I think, Ma... Daniel Russel ...it had to do with allowing the Peace Corps into Vietnam, or whether it was th... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Democrats Democrats go to the Russia Russia go to the Agriculture Agriculture go to the Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa go to the Labor Labor