At the national level he is best known for his advocacy of the rights of older Americans. Throughout the South he is remembered for his unrelenting efforts to achieve racial justice long before the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. And. within his own 14th District in Florida. he is associated at this time with efforts to provide decent and humane resettlement for thousands of Cuban refugees. He has enjoyed an astonishing record of success in his role as chairman of the House Select Committee on Aging. There is no issue of importance to older Americans which that committee has not addressed.
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