This photo shows President Lyndon Johnson speaking with two Job Corps recruits at the Job Corps Training Center at Camp Round Meadow. The Job Corps was conceived during the Kennedy administration in 1962 as a program to address high teen unemployment rates. The Job Corps was initiated as the central program of the Johnson Administration's War on Poverty in 1964, part of his domestic agenda known as the Great Society. Sargent Shriver, the first Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, modeled the program on the Depession-era Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Established in the 1930s as an emergency relief program, the CCC provided room, board, and employment to thousands of unemployed young people. Since its inception in 1964, Job Corps has served more than 1.9 million young people. Job Corps serves approximately 60,000 youths annually at Job Corps Centers throughout the country.

The caption reads: Thurmont, MD, March 10, 1965 -- Job Corps Talk -- President JOhnson has coffee and a talk with two Job Corps recruits during his tour at the Job Corps Training Center in the Catoctin Mountains in Maryland. At the left is Dave Meadows of Baltimore, Md and center is Donald Mullins from Kentucky.