The first is a celebratory one. I note that today. 38 years after the fact. the Senate has unanimously sustained the veto message of Harry S. Truman on the infamous McCarranWalter Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952. During the last 38 years. in virtually every country on the globe some person. respectable or otherwise. but legitimate in any event. was told he could not come to this country for fear that he might say something that would infect the minds of Americans who are presumably incapable of thinking for themselves in matters of foreign affairs and public policy. The Committee on Foreign Relations has been pressing this matter for 3 years. We have suspended the act. but with a sunset provision. Today the McCarranWalter measure is permanently repealed. A colloquy entered in the REcoRD between myself and the very distinguished chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations notes that this matter is now done with. and the "lookout lists" and the endless forms and affidavits which the Immigration and Naturalization Service has developed over 38 years are to come to an end here and now as well. assuming that the President will sign the bill. which I am sure he will do. On a second issue. Madam President. may I note that this measure comes before us this evening in altered form.
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Americans are incapable of thinking for themselves in matters of foreign affairs and public policy.