Mr. Speaker. during my recent trip to my home State of Florida I had a most rewarding and enlightening experience. I spent a night in a migrant camp. sharing the meager fare and inadequate facilities of the migrant community with a group of dedicated VISTA volunteers in training there for a year of service to migrants in Florida and throughout the Nation. As many of my colleagues know this Is not my first contact with the grave problems which beset our migrant population or with the efforts of VISTA to bring help and hope for the future to these least fortunate of our citizens. A year ago it was my privilege to accompany the First Lady to the graduation exercises for the first VISTA volunteers ever to be trained in this Nation. I recall that it was a little over 3 years ago that I called for American volunteers to go among our migrant farm families and our reservationbound Indians in an effort to help them to help themselves. Most recently. however. I had the opportunity to spend enough time with the volunteers to probe the sincerity of their dedication and the vitality and creativity of their attack on migrant problems. I visited them to address the sixth class of volunteers to be trained to help fight the War on Poverty by the Community Action Fund. Inc.. in St.
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