did you both serve in the peace corps? did you meet in the peace corps? did you get married before you went into the peace corps? were you serving in the same country? you were? okay good. it's romantic, right? [laughter] and you are still married, right? [laughter] maybe not. i don't know. [laughter] [applause] that's fantastic. that's unbelievable. somebody else come up to the front row. we are on television now. >> yes, i know. it's been a guy and reminded that you're father gave a lecture from that podium in 1982. >> was 84 but that's okay. >> 1984. >> that's a number you don't really care. >> but i'm reminded he came down to the pub for a beer afterwards and i was wondering if you were going to follow in his footsteps. [laughter] cynic as you know since you are a big supporter the pub is closed and the drinking age is different now than it was. we are on national television. [laughter] >> and then we went after. >> maybe because you have so much money you would treat everybody to would drink to be a disconnect your father was generous in ways that he

within two years the peace corps had grown beyond belief. then came the sad day, seared in the memory of all of us of a certain age, when john kennedy was assassinated. at the request of jacqueline kennedy, shriver took over planning of the funeral, sleeping only a few hours per night as the arrangements were made. the dignity, the pageantry, the deep religious feelings of those four days in november were the result. one journalist remarked, those brutally-emotional scenes which pinned the world to its television sets for four days came more out of sliefer's mind -- shriver's mind than out of anyone else. afterwards, lyndon johnson gave serious consideration to drafting shriver as his running mate in the 1964 election. but the kennedy family, so most historians tell us, wanted robert kennedy to assume political leadership, and eventually hubert humphrey took the vice presidency. shortly after the election, johnson asked shriver to head the war on poverty, some of the impetus for prioritizing the issue of poverty came from the other america, a

she is a san francisco native and was in the peace corps and tout in west africa

i filled out an application for the peace corp. during my senior year because he had. he taught english in morocco. i taught math. we talked about the joys of living and working over seas. we spoke french together. later he helped me get an assignment with a pediatric a.i.d.s. group. now i work in a county hospital in stockton caring for patients from all over the world. like chris, i am genuinely interested in listening to their stories and learning about their lives. i was really hoping he would still be here. i dreamt of someday working as a detector in a country where he was ambassador. i was looking forward to showing off my growing new family. our daughter was born in april. chris got to hold her before leaving for his post in libya. as our father said best at 5 a.m. on september 12th, he made it to the top. he tried his best. he was a great brother. i couldn't agree more. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> good afternoon, steve mcdonald. chris and i have been friends since we pledged the fraternity at uc berkeley in 1978. i want to first thank chris's family for allowing me

i filled out an application for the peace corp. during my senior year because he had. he taught english in morocco. i taught math. we talked about the joys of living and working over seas. we spoke french together. later he helped me get an assignment with a pediatric a.i.d.s. group. now i work in a county hospital in stockton caring for patients from all over the world. like chris, i am genuinely interested in listening to their stories and learning about their lives. i was really hoping he would still be here. i dreamt of someday working as a detector in a country where he was ambassador. i was looking forward to showing off my growing new family. our

that sort of thing then i was in the peace corp. two years in costa rica. by the way, you say i'm the vice presidential nominee for the libertarian. i will be the first peace corp. volunteer elected to national office. that's pleasing. after that i went law school, and it was being drafted i joined the naval rotc and was a navy j. a. g. attorney during vietnam. that's why i was being drafted. within a week of getting back from the peace corp. i received my notice of florida. guess what my future had in store for for me. i was in a federal prosecutor in los angeles. i prosecuted standard case, bank robbery, drug cases didn't think about much. ended up heading a unit prosecuting frauds against the government. after in in the private practice of law business litigation for five years and appointed to the bempleg. i was on the bench for twenty five years and now i'm retired and running for libertarian office. >> what court were you a judge? >> orange county, california. the state court, and over twenty five years, pretty much did everything as a part of that, yo

it reminded me of a priceless letter he sent to me in law school when he was over there in the peace corpswrote wonderful notes and told me when he went running in the village where he was staying, only to have locals come up beside him and say where is it, where did it go. where is what? your donkey. i don't have a donkey. >> why are you running? [ laughter] >> for exercise. >> exercise? are you nuts? if you want exercise, come work on my orchard, you crazy american. >> chris succeeded because he knew how to laugh at himself and relate to people around him. there are two more memories i want to share. one deals with government and jazz. chris always wanted to work for the state department. he always wanted to be involved in the foreign service. he took the foreign service exam when we were undergrads at cal. he came back the first time, pleased with results on the written but felt he didn't do so well on the orals. the question that seemed to trip him up and left him perplexed was the following. mr. stevens, please compare american government and jazz music. chris told us he didn't quite

. >> reporter: we followed silena as she graduated from usf then served in the peace corps in africa. now she is the program director for a nonprofit called up on top working with kids from the tenderloin and the western addition. but more recently, it was a tragedy that reconnected us. in august, she get a late-night call from her uncle. >> of course he couldn't get a word out and i knew even before he said it that someone in our family was murdered. >> reporter: her cousin malik was only 16, murdered in what appeared to be an attempted robbery. it was a flashback for silena whose brother was murdered in 2006. frederick layne, his case never solved. >> it's never a moment in a day that i don't think about my brother and how he impacts every decision that i have made. >> reporter: during the last 10 years, 10 members of silena's family have been murdered but it's her cousin's murder that haunts brother's murder. should she have skipped the peace corps to be home with him. >> i have to establish myself in a solid foundation. >> reporter: she talked about her brother at a speech for stu

. >> i was in the ucla, and then i was in the peace corps for two years and post rica and by the way the vice presidential nominee for the libertarian party. i would be the first peace corps volunteer effort to be elected to the national office and that is kind of pleasing. after that i went to the usc law school and was being drafted so i joined the naval rotc and then was a navy attorney for four years and -- >> was that during vietnam? >> it was during vietnam, that's why i was being drafted actually. within a week of going to the peace corps i received my 18 classification for notice of physical, so guess what i and future had in store for me. after i got out of the navy i was a federal prosecutor in los angeles, u.s. attorney's office. prosecutor standard cases, bank robberies, drug cases, didn't think about it much. in the the petting a unit prosecuting fraud against the government, fha, va, that sort of thing. after that was in the private practice of law, business litigation for five years of appointed to the bench, so i was on the bench for 25 years as a judge and now i'm ret

she wonders should she have skipped the peace corps to stay home with him? what i have learned from the experience is i cannot help anyone without helping myself. i can't be a resource for anyone if i am not establishing myself in a very solid foundation. >> reporter: she talked about her brother at a speech for students rising above. >> i thought i could give him something, something of substance, some guidance but i later realized that he needed a man, a father, not just a big sister. >> reporter: more than half the homicide victims in the united states are african-american. 85% are men, most of them young. >> men have to step up. there is an accountability factor. we need our men to be role models. >> that is another good one. >> reporter: it's not just men she says. it's everyone. the values begin at home. >> i lead by example. going to work everyday, making sure bills are paid, making sure i am constant available when someone needs me. >> reporter: the reason selena works with low income kids now. >> this is my purpose in life, to educate young people.

she is a san francisco native and was in the peace corps and tout in west africa and please welcome jill tucker. [applause] >> thank you. she just dated me with that 9090 peace corps thing. okay. i want to say how great it is to be here. i have been looking at everyone's name tags and awed by the wide variety of people and i want you to in rolodex. email me. there are great stories i have been hearing today. we have amazing and large panel and it is an honor to moderate for them. real quickly you will have to take my word. i have read their full bios which are three pages here. i'm not going to read all of that but you have to my word these are award winning policy makers and leaders in our community. we will start with jeff rosen. [applause] he's the district attorney of santa clara county and the recognized leader in criminal justice reform. he oversees the largest prosecutor's office north of los angeles and prosecute about 40,000 cases each year, so he is on the ground. he sees it all. he is however a green bay packer fan but we will forgive him because they lost. >> you should be ve

the peace corps volunteers, have a nice arrangement with some of the review books that you have a and we get the books from libraries and we believe we have the largest volunteer base in the world which means we can ship very inexpensively. we ship about $4,000 a container. some of the a4a groups there are organizations during this. you what in the door and you want to ship this $16,000. we are able shipper. we start them out and send them off. so again to send them to the american troops. >> vose in places like that which are british or american colonies and there's a lot of peace corps. everybody wants to learn english and so we spend a lot of stuff we just send a whole bunch of during basic kids reading books to cambodia because the u.s. military is teaching cambodians how to speak english and they are going to be reading see spot run. we are finding it all for the world people on the english.

and of course he got us to the moon, created the peace corps, the first real civil rights president. as my son, michael, points out, he's a real history buff, he took the segregationist party and made it a civil rights party. and he inspired people to go into public life. he said, public life is where it's at. it's not sport, it's public life. that's the one redolent reality of our lives. he's still there as the symbol of, look at bill clinton. all of these guys are inspired to go into public life because of him. >> do you see in the second generation after president kennedy, others that still may rise up and become big national leaders? >> i don't see it yet. i think the new joe kennedy in congress will do very well. he may be there for life if he wants to be. patrick has had problems with addiction and dealt with it. he's happily married with a child. good for him to get into private life. i've always thought maria shriver could have done something in public life besides be first lady of california. i thought she had a lot of talent and incredible charisma. i'm not sure i see anybo

the marine corps fellow at the atlantic council. i have two questions. number one, your taughts on how profound the paris peaceonference was, specifically carving up the map on the rest of the 20th century. and then, number two, why did you choose the flag raising on the cover of your book? >> number one, perhaps next to the new deal, the versailles conference is one of the worst things of the 20th century. it gives us, in essence, world war ii. and it not only is bad from the standpoint of destroying national entities by moving people around and putting them in a situation where there's going to be inevitable conflict, that's one of the things it does. it destroys the very concept of collective security because, obviously, league of nations is a monstrous failure. in terms of the flag raising orer is batch chi, it just seemed very symbolic that as the flag goes up, america's stock in the world was rising to this point of prominence. semper fi. >> any other questions? thank you, larry. >> thank you. [applause] >> and as noted, we do have copies available. larry will be glad to sign them, have additional conver

everyday, someone tells me that they ran for office and got involved in the community and join the peace corps, volunteered in the inner city or in outer space because he asked them to give back to this country that has given us all so much. generation inspired has passed that commitment on to their children and grandchildren in the continuity of spirit that continues to work for a more just and peaceful world. as we approached the 50th anniversary, my family thought a good deal about how to best celebrate my father service and patriotism. we recognize that his time is becoming part of history. not living memory. that brings opportunities as well as challenges. both my parents loved history and and they pass it on to me to my brother, john. my father read voraciously about the civil war, english parliamentary history and the world wars of the 20th century. my mother preferred the ancient world in 18th century europe. for them come in the past was not a tie and a welfare. but full of exciting people, rate heroes and heroines, and defense that could teach us a great deal about our own times. her

i spent time in the peace corps in india. it led me to a total of seven months traveling india and getting to nose those people. it was during that summer, the first summer in 1955 knowing that i would one day be in public affairs. i decided unlike my mother's wish, i wouldn't be a democrat but i would run as a republican and india made that difference. i take us back to the founding father's priority for the importance of each individual if this is our society. if you are willing to recognize that we can make a difference in our work, we can affect the public affair's process positively, and then the individual spirit will make the difference. i will continue to commit myself to try to affect the process by way of individual ideas, attempting to move people along the pathway that will hopefully bring us together in a different way. >> i read that you have said that you will not lobby congress. is that correct? >> it is not my intention to be a lobbyist. >> our half hour is finished. thank you, congressman, for your time. >> t

point as did katrina on -- when i got out of school, if you went into government, it was like the peace corpservice thing to do, didn't expect to get rich, but it was like a righteousness to it. now, katrina's right. there's money to be made going into government, and security to be found in government. >> average federal workers earn $32,000 more than the average private sector worker, and i think there's just resentment towards federal workers because they are protected, because the administration is adding them. we see it every month. neil: in other words, you're here to serve us, not us you. what do you think of that, katrina? >> well, i also think a lot of small businesses, and business in general, a lot of times, get, you know, a bad wrap in the press, and as an entrepreneur, i started the business from scratch. i worked at the library in college to pay for my education, making $6 an hour. there's something to be said for hard work, and businesses keep the economy going. it's ultimately the american dream so i think we need to go back to and some argue against me, but we have to go bac

res. 614, celebrating the world peace corps mission and the world peace prize. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. coons: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate and any related statements be printed in the record as if read. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. coons: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate now proceed to the consideration of senate resolution 615, which was submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 615, congratulating the recipients of the 2012 nobel prize in chemistry. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. coons: mr. president, i now ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, that the preamble be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. coons: mr. president, i n

he served as a volunteer in the peace corps and he became an diplomat in the united states agency ofinternational development. john was working with the largely christian community in southern sudan right outside of cuba. to prepare them for election by bringing in thousands of solar-powered radios so that the folks in that region of the sudan would have information about the outside world in preparation for elections for independence. as you know southern sudan is the newest country in the world. on january 1, 2008, new year's new year's day, at 6:45 in the morning i received a call from john's mother, who informed me that the night before john was killed. he was actually murdered by gunmen while driving home from the british embassy for a new year's eve party in khartoum. john was ambushed by two gunmen who sat in their car, in front of his. john was shot in the neck and the chess. the attack followed warnings by the united nations that a terrorist cell, in sudan, was planning to attack westerners. no one blames the president. nobody attacked the national security adviser. what joh

trailers and we ship out about 15 a year and 25,000 books to read then we sent some to the troops in afghanistan and peace corps volunteers and some of the review books that you have we get books from the rule libraries we have the largest volunteer base project in the world and should the jury and expensively we ship for about $4,000 for container and some of the other groups, there's a lot of other organizations doing this sort of stuff using the data individuals we put them in a container and send them off. >> we send them out to the american troops to other countries to start at the libraries. >> we've done about 40 countries and most of the african countries are english-speaking but we spend a pledge in a lot of the stands and the uzbeckistan and kazakhstan and the south american countries, the philippines, places like that with the british american calling colonies. we send a lot of stuff for basic english. to cambodia the u.s. military is teaching the cambodians how to speak english and they are going to be reading see spot run for the different versions of those sort of things. so we are finding all ove

he has served as the director of this subcommittee many, many years ago and as the a peace corps volunteer in tanzania, he's the receiver of numerous awards from the department of state. mr. ambassador, the floor is yours. >> chairman smith, ranking member bass, members of the committee, thank you for the very kind invitation to testify before the subcommittee today on the crisis unfolding in the eastern democratic republic of the congo, the drc. as you know, the security and humanitarian situation in the congo is the most volatile in africa today. an estimated five million people have died in the years since the second regional war began in that country in 1997-1998, and millions more have been forced to flee their homes. the people of north and south -- [inaudible] provinces in particular have faced repeated cycles of conflict and shocking atrocities. the november 20th fall of goma to the m23 rebel group provided a stark reminder that in spite of the international community's major investments in humanitarian aid and peace keeping, the underlying causes of the recurring conflicts in the

about the peace corps, of course they would shut it down. the millennium challenge corporation, shut that down. the list goes on and on. i mention these things because they have all had strong bipartisan support, republican and democratic support both in the congress and in the republican and democratic administrations. so let's not waste our time like this. it's a classic example of recklessly robbing peter to pay paul. we need americans to help the victims of hurricane sandy rebuild their lives. we also don't do it by eliminating programs that are critical to our economy and especially programs critical to our national security. this amendment includes a new provision that would prevent all funds within this act from being considered emergency spending. now, mr. president, can any one of us stand here on this floor in a straight face and say that the devastating effects of the largest atlantic hurricane in history isn't an emergency? the presiding officer: if the senator would suspend, the time for the vote has now arrived. mr. leahy: i wou

peace and prosperity. growing up in california i didn't know much about the arab world. then after graduating from the university of california at berkeley, i traveled to north africa as peace corpsr. i worked as an english teacher in morocco two years and quickly grew to love this part of the world. since joining the service i spent almost my entire career in middle east and africa. one of the things that impressed me were people old enough to have lived and traveled in the united states when we had closer relations. those days are back. we had 1,700 libyans apply for fullbright grants to study in the united states this year, more than any other country in the world. we know that libya is still recovering from an intense period of conflict. there are many courageous libyans who bear the scars of that battle. we are happy we have been able to treat some of your war wounded at u.s. hospitals. we look forward to building partnerships between american and libyan hospitals to help return libya's healthcare system to the extraordinary standards of excellence it once enjoyed. over my shoulder here you can see the u.s. capitol building. in that building 535 elected representatives from

then we send a lot to the troops in iraq and afghanistan, peace corps volunteers, we have an arrangement with the folks at c-span, the books that you have, we get books from schools and libraries, and we believe we have the largest volunteer-based book distribution project in the world which means we can ship very inexpensively. we ship for about $4,000 for a container. some of the other groups -- there are some wonderful organizations that are doing this sort of stuff. they start at $16,000 because they're using paid individuals. we're a bulk shipper. we, you know, bring 'em in, sort 'em out, put 'em in a container and send them off. >> host: and you send them besides to american troops and americans abroad, but to other cups, too, to start lie brains? >> guest: yes. most of them are african countries, english-speaking. we've done uzbekistan, kazahkstan and the south american countries, of course, the philippines, plaitses like that -- british or american colonies and then a lot of peace corps volunteers. everybody who wants to learn english. so we send a lot of stuff for basic english.

i spent time in the peace corps in india. it led me to a total of seven months traveling india and getting to nose those people. it was during that summer, the first summer in 1955 knowing that i would one day be in public affairs. i decided unlike my mother's wish, i wouldn't be a democrat but i would run as a republican and india made that difference. i take us back to the founding father's priority for the importance of each individual if this is our society. if you are willing to recognize that we can make a difference in our work, we can affect the public affair's process positively, and then the individual spirit will make the difference. i will continue to commit myself to try to affect the process by way of individual ideas, attempting to move people along the pathway that will hopefully bring us together in a different way. >> i read that you have said that you will not lobby congress. is that correct? >> it is not my intention to be a lobbyist. >> our half hour is finished. thank you, congressman, for your time. >> t

the non-profit works like an urban peace corps. equires recruits-- many of whom are recent college graduates-- to work for ten months in some of the nations highest-need public schools in an effort to reduce the dropout rate. today's cheering and upbeat attitude is in contrast to how the school was when principal denise charbonnet arrived in 2009. >> the first year i came i almost turned and walked out the door. the discipline was a real issue here. we had over 50% suspension rate. >> reporter: on top of behavior issues, charbonnet also inherited a school where one in four of the students were failing and the district was seeing a spike in homelessness. broadmoor middle school is made up of mostly minority students and 95% of them are eligible for free or reduced lunch, meaning the kids come from low-income families that qualify for federal assistance. but despite these challenges, charbonnet says her school has largely been able to turn things around in the last three years. >> we have lowered our suspension rate from 50% to 15% wh