I have worked closely with the many Long Island groups who have devoted their energies to ending this repression. and will continue to lend my efforts to that worthy purpose. For while limited freedom for all Soviet citizens is itself deplorable. the policy of "no freedom at all" for Soviet Jews is an abomination which must be dealt with in the most forceful way we know how. Chief among those normal freedoms which other peoples of the world enjoy but which are denied to Soviet Jews. is the freedom to emigrate to a nation of their choice. Because I was so concerned about this basic denial of rights. I long ago wrote President Nixon asking that he address this repression at the first opportunity with Soviet officials and lend the full weight of the office of the Presidency to this struggle for human rights.
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