Statement by the President on the Agreement Covering Movement of Cuban Refugees to the United States.
I AM pleased with the understanding which has been reached. It is an important forward step in carrying out the declaration I made on October 3 to the Cuban people. I said that those who seek refuge here will find it. That continues to be the policy of the American people.
Note: The statement was read by Bill D. Moyers, Special Assistant m the President, at his news conference at 10:04 a.m. on Saturday, November 6, 1965, at Austin, Tex. It was not made public in the form of a White House press release.
On November 6 the White House announced that the Swiss Embassy in Havana, representing U.S. interests in Cuba, and the Cuban Foreign Ministry had exchanged diplomatic notes establishing procedures for the movement of Cuban refugees to the United States. The text of the notes is printed in the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (vol. 1, p. 471).
For the President's declaration of October 3, made at the ceremony for the signing of the immigration bill on Liberty Island, see Item 546.
See also Item 618.
Lyndon B. Johnson, Statement by the President on the Agreement Covering Movement of Cuban Refugees to the United States. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/241090