afterwards wes moore traces his career choices from combat veteran to social entrepreneur to find his life s purpose. on american history tv on c-span3 saturday night just after 7:00, the 1963 interview of malcolm x discussing race relations and opposition to racial integration and sunday at 6:30 p.m. eastern, former cia chief of disguise tells the story of a husband and wife kgp spy team that infiltrated through the use of sex. send us a tweet at @cspan. in 2008 he was interviewed about congressional efforts to seek redress. it s about an hour for this world history. today is friday july 4th 2008. we re in denver at the japanese american national museums conference, and this morning we have secretary norman mineta with us. and i m doing this differently. we usually do an oral history and i start from the very beginning. but because of time constraints, i m really going to focus on the redress, so the first question, i just want to find out, was there anything in your early
so even though i had people ask me about it, i always dismissed it. but this was an opportunity through an appointment, not election. so you get appointed, then you do your job, then you can seek election. so in 1969, i ran for the city council post that i had by appointment. but on the brochure, i couldn t say reelect norm because i hadn t been elected in the first place, so we used the phrase retain norm on the council. how supportive was the japanese american community to your campaign? very. i had great support from within the community. at that point it was probably maybe 2% of the population, 3%. very, very small. but i had great support from the japanese american community. and so that was also true by 1970, i had become vice mayor, and then in 1971, for the reelection for the mayor s post, the mayor decided not to seek reelection. so then that mayor and many people said, hey, you ve got to run for mayor. well, i was trying to split my duties between being on the
what this cartoon did from a journalist socially credible and deeply entrusted as life magazine was, especially at a time of such po larty was deeply irresponsible, in my opinion. which we can all appreciate from contemporary standpoint. when people flinch at the use of the term jam. and one thing i do appreciate about it, though is acknowledgment, at least, in a public forum that most people could not tell the difference between certain types of asians, which, you know, i think a lot of us still agree would happen today. well, would it happen today? would it happen today? would this happen again? taking a large number of americans, citizens because of their race their religion, their national origin. i mean it s not the same thing, but it s sort of happening with the ferguson and, like, you know, racial policy in the united states right now. so it s not the same thing at all. but it s only still an issue today. in terms of race. what if there s another 9/11. what would
me about it, i always dismissed it. but this was an opportunity through an appointment, not election. so you get appointed, then you do your job, then you can seek election. so in 1969, i ran for the city council post that i had by appointment. but on the brochure, i couldn t say reelect norm because i hadn t been elected in the first place, so we used the phrase retain norm on the council. how supportive was the japanese american community to your campaign? very. i had great support from within the community. at that point it was probably maybe 2% of the population, 3%. very, very small. but i had great support from the japanese american community. and so that was also true by 1970, i had become vice mayor, and then in 1971, for the reelection for the mayor s post, the mayor decided not to seek reelection. so then that mayor and many people said, hey, you ve got to run for mayor. well, i was trying to split my duties between being on the city council and running the bu
found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la what are we drinking? beer? harder stuff? what s going on? i usually go with a budweiser and a jagermeister. budweiser and jagermeister. any notion of going local right out the window. two jagers? yeah, two jagers. cheers. the first one s never good. the first one is never good. but it gets easier after the first one. so, look, this is not my first time to charleston, as you know. i did do a show here before, and i m still taking [ muted ] about it. apparently i really [ muted ] up the first time i came here because i made a number of errors. apparently none more egregious than going out like, doing an oyster roast and drinking champagne. i never heard of such a thing. well, champagne and beers is okay with the oysters. so it must have been a got confused somewhere. anyway, i got it wrong