An additional $265 million would be directed to support networks of school districts, universities, science agencies, museums, businesses and other educational entities focused on STEM education, and to finance the creation of a corps of master teachers.
President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Mr. Vaughn as the second director of the Peace Corps in 1966, after the five-year tenure of R. Sargent Shriver, the driving force in the creation of the corps during the Kennedy administration.
Rice, on the other hand, would contribute to the creation of a corps of "lithe, agile peoples who will be victorious" in the "likely event of future wars" — all the while minimizing wheat imports.
And last, dare to be "audacious" with innovative programs, Mr. Danzig suggested, like the creation of a corps of citizens who could be trained to step in to help a child when caseloads went over a certain limit and then stick with that child as a mentor as he or she grows up.
With the help of the United States Sanitary Commission and a reorganization of the Army medical corps, which included the creation of an ambulance corps to rival any European army and a modern general hospital system across the nation, the Civil War revolutionized medical care in the United States.
The creation of the diplomatic corps, the European External Action Service, has been slow.
Mr. Bush first announced the creation of the Freedom Corps in his State of the Union speech in January, but it was overshadowed by his declaration, in the same speech, that Iraq, Iran and North Korea were part of an "axis of evil".
The House Armed Services Committee began pushing for the creation of a space corps last year as part of the last spending authorization bill for the military.
He ordered the creation of the "Observation Corps of the Gironde".
He put his hopes in the creation of a new corps of young civil servants trained abroad, a project that never quite happened.
Upon taking the White House, Kennedy asked Shriver to oversee the creation of a "peace corps of talented men and women who would dedicate themselves to the progress and peace of developing countries".
