Mr. Chairman. I wish to take this opportunity to thank President Johnson for the letter which he addressed to the Speaker urging passage of the immigration bill under consideration by the House of Representatives today. The Presidents generous remarks concerning the work which has been done in our country by Americans of diverse nationalities is most gratifying and rewarding. I am greatly honored and sincerely touched that we would include my name with those other of my colleagues of varying national backgrounds and ancestry who serve in the Congress of the United States. Perhaps more than any of his predecessors. President Johnson is indeed the President of all the people. I join with him wholeheartedly in supporting this legislation to bring our immigration laws up to the ideal which we have proclaimed to the world for so many years. We in the House of Representatives today have been called to right an old wrong. to bring justice where prejudice and injustice have prevailed too long. We are asked to support a revision in our present immigration laws which will eliminate the test of nationality as a condition for admission to the United States of America. It is incredible that it has taken us so long to correct this inequity. Each of us is familiar with the historians description of America In the 1840s and the results of our great experiment in selfdetermination.
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