WHERE WOULD WE BE WITHOUT IMMIGRANTS

“This country, if you think about it, we are sitting here, in part, because of two Jewish immigrants who in August 1939, signed the most important letter perhaps in the history of the United States.”

(He recommended that the audience search the letter online).

That letter was sent to President Franklin D. Roosevelt by Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard warning that Germany might develop an atomic bomb. It resulted in the Manhattan Project.