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very direct and grilling questions of witnesses that would come before our committee. sometimes there would be a tense moment. but ralph always had something funny or a story to tell that broke the ice. you ve seen a number of members of the texas delegation here today, particularly the republican delegation and every thursday, we have lunch together. talk about what s good for texas. but what was always a thing that we always looked forward to, we couldn t wait until ralph got there so that we could ralph could share a funny story. and you know, one of the things that i ll miss most about ralph is those times when he d be on the floor or he would be at lunch, sharing those stories. now one of the things about ralph is that as he got older, he got wiser. and in fact he, got so wise, in 2004, he realized he needed to be a part of the republican party and so he switched from the democratic party to the republican party. we were so glad to welcome him to that. so as i sa ....
today, particularly the republican delegation and every thursday, we have lunch together. talk about what s good for texas. but what was always a thing that we always looked forward to, we couldn t wait until ralph got there so that we could ralph could share a funny story. and you know, one of the things that i ll miss most about ralph is those times when he d be on the floor or he would be at lunch, sharing those stories. now one of the things about ralph is that as he got older, he got wiser. and in fact he, got so wise, in 2004, he realized he needed to be a part of the republican party and so he switched from the democratic party to the republican party. we were so glad to welcome him to that. so as i said, it s been an honor and a privilege, ralph, to be part of your team on the science, space and technology committee. it s been a great honor to be one of your colleagues, but more importantly, ralph, we want to thank you for your friendship and kinship and most ....
force behind the creation of southern california. he became the first chief judge of the district court serving in that position until he was appointed to the ninth circuit court of appeals. judge carter judge keep graduated from the san diego school of law as its valedictorian, becaming the first female judge for the southern court of california and later the first female chief judge. and this honors judge john rhodes who served as a federal judge in san diego for 22 years and was widely respected and beloved throughout the region s legal community. udge s. judges, carter, keep and rhodes showed excellence and integrity. i m proud to honor their legacy with this legislation, and i want to thank two of my colleagues in particular, congresswoman susan davis who represented this area before i did, and led this effort for the past several years. and congressman darrell issa for his support and great amendments to the bill. it s better because of his work. and i m proud ....
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 ....
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 ....