Mr. President. President Johnson is making history this week. It is great history. On Tuesday he sent a splendid education program to the Congress. On Wednesday he sent an epochmaking immigration message to the Hill. The Presidents legislation will abolish the existing quota system based on national origins. He rightly says: That system is incompatible with our basic American tradition. And he followed this radical and inspiring proposal of reform with the following equally inspiring elaboration: Over the years the ancestors of all of ussome 42 million human beingshave migrated to our shores. The fundamental longtime American attitude has been to ask not where a person comes from but what are his personal qualities.
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