Massive immunization programs to wipe out diseases afflicting our Spanishspeaking citizens. School aid programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. making possible the improvement of schooling for hundreds of thousands of MexicanAmerican children. Special efforts to improve the health. wages. and education of migrant farmworkers. at least 1 million of whom are Mexican Americans. For far too long. many of these citizens have been the forgotten minority. forgotten because their innate dignity and their pride of race and customs would not permit them to cry out for the help they needhelp to overcome barriers of language and culture which have held them in the status of secondclass citizenship. This status could be a national disgrace. an ugly scar on the traditions of the United States as the one Nation where opportunities should be equal for all.