Barack Obama is scheduled to give a major speech on national service in Mt. Vernon, Iowa today. Mark Halperin at Time is reporting that Harris Wofford, a JFK aide, Peace Corps pioneer and Clinton pal is going to appear with Obama and endorse him. the page @ time.com
Wofford has extremely impressive credentials. He graduated from University of Chicago in 1948 and got his law degree from Yale and Howard University Law Schools in 1954. He was a legal assistant at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and then a law professor at Notre Dame Law School. After coordinating civil rights for John F. Kennedy’s 1960 presidential campaign he became a special assistant to President Kennedy in the area of Civil Rights and assisted in the formation of the Peace Corps and subsequently was associate director.
