UM: Peace Corps

Activist Tom Hayden, writing on The Huffington Post, describes his experiences at UM in 1960, when he served as editor of the Michigan Daily: “Sometime that year, Al and Judy Guskin came to see me at the Daily asking to print a letter to the editor about their peace corps idea. I not only said yes, but I committed the Daily to backing their efforts with continuing coverage. And I agreed to give a speech, the first of my life, 19 single-space pages, to their group, ‘Americans for World Responsibility.’ I became the Guskins’ mouthpiece.” Hayden tells how the Guskins’ idea got passed along to John F. Kennedy, who mentioned it during his presidential campaign speech at the Michigan Union 50 years ago. [Source]