President Kennedy is responsible for the start of the Peace Corps in 1961. The program aimed to increase understanding between Americans and the people and nations of the world. The goal of the Peace Corp was for volunteers to dedicate themselves to the peace and upward mobility of underdeveloped countries.
President Kennedy started the space program and insisted that astronauts were to be college graduates. That is why the greatest pilot of all time, Yaeger, was overlooked for the program. A movie was made in the 70s about this subject, "The Right Stuff".
Apollo
The Apollo program was the American effort to land astronauts on the moon. President John F. Kennedy started this program.
Peace Corps.
President Kennedy is responsible for the start of the Peace Corps in 1961. The program aimed to increase understanding between Americans and the people and nations of the world. The goal of the Peace Corp was for volunteers to dedicate themselves to the peace and upward mobility of underdeveloped countries.
The Peace Corps. It was established in 1961.
No, Head Start was started under President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Kennedy
While President Nixon was a big supporter of space exploration, it was President Kennedy who actually started federal funding to finance it. It could be said, Kennedy started the space race.
Eisenhower or Kennedy
JohnF Kennedy
John F. Kennedy started the program to send men to the moon, but died in 1963. After his death, Richard Nixon continued to fund John Fitzgerald Kennedy's space program and in 1969, while Richard M. Nixon was president, the first men landed on the moon.
The US had military advisers in Vietnam under Kennedy, but the was did not really start for the US Johnson became President.
Well, Kennedy started and founded this program called Peace Corps. This program sent volunteers to helped people that were developing new nations. 😆