The peace keeper: Gaddi Vasquez, Director, U.S. Peace Corps.(LATINO PRESIDENTIAL STAFF)(Interview)(Biography)

From: Latino Leaders | Date: October 1, 2005 | Copyright information

Gaddi Vasquez has two very important, yet dramatically different pictures on a credenza in his office. The first is a picture of what is barely a house with him and his father standing at the front. The other is of him being sworn in as Director of the Peace Corps with President Bush standing in the background.

Both of his parents were farm workers; his grandparents came from Mexico. The house he grew up in Carrizo, Texas had no running water, no heat and no cooling. It was just a trailer sitting on top of dirt. "It is a reminder every day that I am blessed and fortunate to ...

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