Involved will be only some 535 American and 520 German students annually. at small costbut that is over 1.000 a year. over 10.000 in a decade. multiplied by the families of the students. multiplied again by the host families. and multiplied again by friends and high school classmates. The potential cumulative importance of a program of this nature was repeatedly emphasized to me by German officials during my visit there earlier this month. and we should note that the Bundestag has already provided funding for the German half of the exchange. It is appropriate that we todayin this. the year in which we commemorate the tricentennial of German immigration to the United Statesmeet the Bundestag halfway. The exchange program will be a living legacy of the tricentennial year. I hasten to remind my colleagues that among exchange programs this one is uniqueit is a congressional initiative. proposed by Congress. whose participants will be chosen by Congress. and whose German guests will reside in each of the States and congressional districts.
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