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1. Teddy was also accustomed to having compromising conversations "off the record" with Soviet diplomats like Anatoly Dobrynin (Soviet ambassador to the U.S.) and Yuri Andropov, when he was General Secretary of the CPSU.

2. Unrestricted Mexican immigration was something LBJ had been fomenting for a dozen years by the time that bill passed. He'd tried to flout President Eisenhower and hold the floodgates open back in 1953-4, but Eisenhower euchred "Landslide Linton" by dealing with the problem via Executive Orders.

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Operation Wetback.