It contained the interim measures I had introduced in the Senate. In the letter I called for President Eisenhowers support for a bipartisan edort to ease some of the harsh and discriminatory provisions of the present law. Noting. at that time. that both candidates during the 1952 campaign had been agreed on the need for revision of the Immigration and Nationality Act. I described my proposal to the President as "a fair beginning bill. on which reasonable men of both parties could agree at this time without the necessity of overhauling our immigration laws drastically. desirable as that may be." My letter stated: My bill does not constitute a complete revision of the present Immigration and Nationality Act. It does not go as far as I would like it to go and as some of us are suggesting in other legislation. In all probability. it does not go as far as you would wish it to go.
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