The President's war against poverty took shape and substance last week. In St. Petersburg, Fla., the first regular class of Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), the domestic version of the Peace Corps, graduated. And in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, 45 miles west of Baltimore, the first Job Corps training camp was officially opened.
Lady Bird Johnson, in St. Petersburg to give diplomas to the eleven men and eight women of VISTA'S graduating class, explained the idea behind the organization. Said she: "America is many things. But above all, more than any nation...
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