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Who did President Kennedy appoint as director of the Peace Corps?

a. R. Sargent Shriver
b. Robert Kennedy
c. Eleanor Roosevelt
d. Lyndon
b. Johnson

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The answer is letter A, Sargent Shriver. President Kennedy signed the Executive Order 10924 appointing Sargent Shriver as the director of the Peace Corps on March 1, 1961. Concerned with the growing tide of revolutionary sentiment of the third world. Sargent Shriver is his brother-in-law.
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