Speaker. in addition to the personal and social relationship which President Johnson had with many Members of the Congress. his intimate contacts on subjects of official business are unsurpassed in modern history. His personal interest in the Congress and his individual efforts in securing support of measures which he proposed account in large part for the enormous success which he had in the enactment of domestic legislation. I was privileged to take an active part in the revision of our immigration laws which President Johnson dramatized in a billsigning ceremony in New York with the Statue of Liberty as a backdrop. It was also my privilege to support actively the Voting Rights Act of 1964. which resulted in expanding the voting franchise to millions of black Americansand has resulted in the large increase in black officeholders particularly in our Southern States. Mr.
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