Session #83 · 1953–55

Speech #830100127

But I serve notice now that I will not. of course. be bound by any such arrangement. if such an arrangement has been entered into. I hope that President Eisenhower has not agreed to any such terms. so inconsistent with his campaign pledges of last November. He is aware. I am sureand the public must be awarethat the pending bill is not. in any sense. a discharge of the promises made to the people by both presidential candidates in the last electionboth President Eisenhower and Governor Adlai Stevensonto seek basic revisions in the McCarran Act. The promise wag made that the McCarran Act would be drastically revised to remove from it its harsh and discriminatory featuresworst of all. the national origins quota system.
Keywords matched
national origins quota

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
HERBERT LEHMAN
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
NY
Gender
M
Date
—
Speech ID
830100127
Paragraph
#6
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