Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I am personally interested in the contributions which the Boards can make, and ask their full cooperation in the great tasks before us.

So instead of using the test of where the immigrant was born, I would hope that we could apply a somewhat more nondiscriminatory test.

Dr. Bush, because of our friendship for many years, for your great achievements, it gives me great pleasure to present this to you.

Above all, we are Americans before we are Democrats or Republicans.