The President's News Conference
08/19/1963
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The use of a national origins system is without basis in either logic or reason.
The United States cannot afford to renounce responsibility for support of the very fundamentals which distinguish our concept of government ...
No responsible government could accept the present situation with complacency.
Congress acted promptly and effectively; and the Supreme Court (Wilson vs. New, 243 U.S. 332, 333, 342, 1917), emphasizing the fact that the...