The development of Ellis Island and the adjacent park in Jersey City will add a priceless recreational and historic asset to our New Jersey waterfront. All of us in the Congress who have been pressing for this kind of project are particularly pleased with the Interior Departments recommendations. Secretary Udall and his staff are to be commended for their excellent work. Mr. President. those of our citizens who can trace their ancestry as Americans to Ellis Island can attest that they have made the most of the freedom and opportunity which were opened to them. By building this monument to the courage and energy of our immigrant citizens. we can memorialize one of the great chapters of American history.
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