Lyndon Johnson actually said...

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 entry into the United States of America.

Context

Remarks at the Signing of the Immigration Bill, Liberty Island, New York

10/02/1965

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