Whcoa Vets Raise Concern, Hopes about 2005 Conclave

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"I have a dream," declared go-year-old Arthur Flemming at the 1995 White House Conference on Aging (WHCOA) with a purposeful allusion to Martin Luther King, "a dream that this nationa) community will not only live up to the obligations that it has at the present time, but. . . will look forward, not backward, as far as helping our people deal with the hazards and vicissitudes of life."

Flemming's speech was "my favorite moment," Robert N. Butler, who chaired the 1995 WHCOA Advisory Committee, recently told Aging Today. Jon Pynoos, a delegate and expert observer at the once-a-decade conference, recalled that Flemming received "the loudest and longest standing ovation of any speaker …