him up for this, but john kennedy was leaving and he turned on the porch of the lbj ranch saw me leaning in the corner, came over and said, i said, "no, i'm going to teach at a baptist school "and i'll get my phd." and he said, "don't you know harvard was founded "by a baptist preacher?" he said, "we need you in washington," so i went. and just a few months into working in the vice president's office, boring job, he and i had writtenhis mind, it a speech for lbj,at time, he said, "i don't have a speech, i'm going to speak ve "at this uity give me a speech." so i sat down on my little portable typewriter ot and a speech proposing a youth corps, where did i get the idea? from hubert humphrey in tinnesota he had been advo a youth corps a peace corps, kennedy of course picked it up but so did we. and after the election i realized as kennedy announced that hpewas going to start the corps, that's what i wanted to do so i began to rest myself free of thesand t vice president's office. and i was one of the founding organizers of the peace corps, becato its first deputy dir and i had the three best years of my life. you know it was a new effort to send young people who were