This job cannot be done, however, just by the Government alone.

We just must make that vision come true.

I expect you to do something about this.

In the event of inability the President would--if possible--so inform the Vice President, and the Vice President would serve as Acting President, exercising the powers and duties of the Office until the inability had ended.

In the event of an inability which would prevent the President from so communicating with the Vice President, the Vice President, after such consultation as seems to him appropriate under the circumstances, would decide upon the devolution…

We can now believe that it will never again shadow the gate to the American Nation with the twin barriers of prejudice and privilege.

It corrects a cruel and enduring wrong in the conduct of the American Nation.

The lesson of our times is sharp and clear in this movement of people from one land to another.

The dedication of America to our traditions as an asylum for the oppressed is going to be upheld.

Our next concern is with those who are imprisoned for political reasons.

When the earliest settlers poured into a wild continent there was no one to ask them where they came from.

So it is in that spirit that I declare this afternoon to the people of Cuba that those who seek refuge here in America will find it.

The Federal Government will work closely with these agencies in their tasks of charity and brotherhood.

Today, with my signature, this system is abolished.

I am asking the Department of State to seek through the Swiss Government immediately the agreement of the Cuban Government in a request to the President of the International Red Cross Committee.

Our beautiful America was built by a nation of strangers.

Our first concern will be with those Cubans who have been separated from their children and their parents and their husbands and their wives and that are now in this country.

This bill says simply that from this day forth those wishing to immigrate to America shall be admitted on the basis of their skills and their close relationship to those already here.