It is a wealthy banker sitting down with a poor resident of a target neighborhood to plan together. in cooperation with a local clergyman. a representative of municipal government. and other fellow citizens of all backgrounds. the projects most needed to fight poverty In their community. Community action is over 3.000 previously unemployed adults who are now at work In good jobs because of the opportunities industrialization center in Philadelphia. Community action is all these things and many morean elderly and poor widow who finds new joy and new meaning in life as a foster grandparent. a teenager from a poor family. whose potential for success Is being overlooked in high school until the doors to opportunity are opened by upward bound. a poor family threatened with eviction by an overbearing landlord until a neighborhood legal services attorney places a phone call. a poor mother. desperate with fears for her sick child. who suddenly learns in a neighborhood health center that expert medical care is not a privilege reserved to the rich. an Indian youth for whom compensatory education makes American citizenship as meaningful as tribal citizenship. a migrant farmworker who gains. through job training. the opportunity to choose a permanent home for his family and a productive trade outside the migrant stream. or the little Headstart child whose remarkable transformation inspires a whole family to take advantage of other selfhelp community action projects. Beyond all these things. community action is the extraordinary source of hope and aspiration which has made the war on poverty mean so very much to millions of poor Americans. and to the thousands of civic leaders. State and local officials. clergymen. educators. businessmen. lawyers. doctors. and distinguished private groups who for the past several months have been so earnestly addressing us In behalf of this program.