"In the event of inability the President would--if possible--so inform the Vice President, and the Vice President would serve as Acting President, exercising the powers and duties of the Office until t..."
"In the event of an inability which would prevent the President from so communicating with the Vice President, the Vice President, after such consultation as seems to him appropriate under the circumst..."
"The fairness of this standard is so self-evident that we may well wonder that it has not always been applied."
"Our next concern is with those who are imprisoned for political reasons."
"So it is in that spirit that I declare this afternoon to the people of Cuba that those who seek refuge here in America will find it."
"This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill."
"This bill says simply that from this day forth those wishing to immigrate to America shall be admitted on the basis of their skills and their close relationship to those already here."
"The Federal Government will work closely with these agencies in their tasks of charity and brotherhood."
"The lesson of our times is sharp and clear in this movement of people from one land to another."
"When the earliest settlers poured into a wild continent there was no one to ask them where they came from."
"I have directed the Departments of State and Justice and Health, Education, and Welfare to immediately make all the necessary arrangements to permit those in Cuba who seek freedom to make an orderly e..."
"Our first concern will be with those Cubans who have been separated from their children and their parents and their husbands and their wives and that are now in this country."
"Our beautiful America was built by a nation of strangers."
"It corrects a cruel and enduring wrong in the conduct of the American Nation."
"We can now believe that it will never again shadow the gate to the American Nation with the twin barriers of prejudice and privilege."
"Once again, it stamps the mark of failure on a regime when many of its citizens voluntarily choose to leave the land of their birth for a more hopeful home in America."
"Today, with my signature, this system is abolished."
"I am asking the Department of State to seek through the Swiss Government immediately the agreement of the Cuban Government in a request to the President of the International Red Cross Committee."
