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Lyndon Johnson: We have stopped asking people these days--after Congress acted on the immigration law--'Where were you born?'

On the recordOctober 11, 1966
We have stopped asking people these days--after Congress acted on the immigration law--'Where were you born?'
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Verrazano Monument, Staten Island, New York

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