If you examine further. their positions and their utterances on related issues. So that today. as well as in 1965 when a very enlightened President. President Johnson. certainly enlightened in these matters. thought that the bill he fought for and finally the Congress got. which in his eyes was that the racial or national origin quotas had been eliminated. But lo and behold on the floor of the House during the deliberation of that bill the Congressman from Minnesota gets up and offers an amendment that had. been rejected in the committee. and which the chairman of the full Judiciary Committee then had assured me would not be accepted. This amendment was that for the. first time it would place fixed. rigid quotas on Western Hemisphere countries including. including the only two nations that are adjacent to the United States.
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