The supreme irony is that the President that founded the Peace Corp also started the Vietnam War and provoked the Cuban Missile crisis by placing US nuclear missiles in Northern Turkey. "You've waited for this for a long time." said the Peace Corp Director to John Kerry after the signing, presumably this was a reference to the fact the Kerry had fought in Vietnam and victory has been a long time coming. The Official report was as follows: The United States and Vietnam on Tuesday signed an agreement allowing the US Peace Corps to work in the country for the first time. The signing, which comes amid a historic three-day visit by President Barack Obama, follows more than a decade of negotiations between the two countries to establish a Peace Corps operation in Vietnam.The program, which is expected to begin over the next two years, allows Peace Corps volunteers to teach English in schools in the country's two largest cities, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, said Peace Corps Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet, who signed the agreement with Vietnam's ambassador to the US, Pham Quang Vinh.US Secretary of State John Kerry, who was present for the signing, said the agreement marked a further normalizing of relations between the US and Vietnam. "For 20 years now we have had what we call a normal relationship," said Kerry, who in 1968 served as a young US naval officer in the Vietnam War."This is normal, having the Peace Corps being able to move forward, having young Americans come here, not always young, to be able to teach English in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh is the next step forward to building the relationship between the United States and Vietnam," he added. After the signing, Hessler-Radelet turned to Kerry saying: "You've waited for this for a long time."
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