U.S. Senator David Reed (1880 – 1953) chose to take another victory lap as he recalled the glories of the legislation he co-authored in 1924 (the Johnson-Reed Bill, a.k.a. the National Origins Law). He recalls how the bill was crafted, and all the census research that went into it.
“The National Origins Law is built around the theory that we can more readily assimilate people similar to ourselves than those who are dissimilar, and that we shall reach the maximum of assimilability if we can bring in each year a counterpart in miniature of our present population [except Asians].”
