Richard Nixon actually said...
Let me speak to you about why it is so important for us to be the land of the open door, why, not simply from the standpoint of wanting our country to provide a haven for people who are distressed, people who need assistance from other lands, but why America needs those people, why they add to America.
Context
Remarks to Members Attending the 1971 Symposium of the American Committee on Italian Migration.
06/07/1971