Mr. President. I would like to take a few moments to express a personal viewpoint about the arrival of many thousands of refugees from South Vietnam. I am deeply concerned that this issue now threatens to divide us as a nation even as the war itself has divided us for so many years. I hope that this will not be soand that our country will welcome these new immigrants just as we have welcomed refugees from war and political oppression throughout our history. I speak to this issue as one who is himself the son of a refugee. First. let me point out that the agony of Vietnam is over. America squandered much of her wealth. the lives of her young men. and much of her moral leadership in a policy that was wrong.
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