Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Once again, it stamps the mark of failure on a regime when many of its citizens voluntarily choose to leave the land of their birth for a more hopeful home in America.

Context

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

10/02/1965

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