I sat in the Senate gallert in 1939that is my first memory of this great Senator. A little while later. I came to know him and to see. and sense his deep un.derstanding of the uses of Senate power when representing on Capitol Hill an organization seeking fair play for immigrants and the foreign born in our country. I dealt With him in his capacity as chairman of what was in those days the Senate Immigiation Committee. One day. it was discovered that unless a bill was introduced and passed by the Senate and House and signed by the President within 48 hours. thousands of naturalized Americans. most of them Jewish. trapped by the outbreak of World War II in Europe and the Near East. would lose their American citizenship. I knew that only with the help of Richard Russell could I get that bill that far that fast. Tomy dismay.
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