Word: nisei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former Lieutenant Governor Robert Finch, now President Nixon's Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Further, in a state that has in the past shown hostility to Asians, 82% of the voters said they were "strongly favorable" or "somewhat favorable" to what they have seen of the diminutive Nisei...
...Japanese-Americans in dreary camps for as long as four years. They lost an estimated $400 million in confiscated property, earned no more than $19 a month in the camps. Although not a single Japanese-American was convicted during the war of spying, and many served in the famous Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat team, which won more decorations than any outfit in U.S. Army history for its exploits in Italy and France, the detainees were not released until just before the end of the war-and then with neither apologies nor abodes to ease their anguish. More than...
...this strident attack on the wartime sequestration, Allan R. Bosworth, 65, a retired U.S. Navy captain, points out that no Japanese American was ever accused of sabotage or treason in the continental U.S. Indeed, a large number of the internees volunteered for duty with a regiment composed solely of Nisei, and they set an enviable combat record in Italy. The regiment became the most decorated fighting unit in U.S. history...
...favor either in the White House or in the power fastnesses of Congress." At another time, Kraft is quick to point out, Hoover was "a model of zeal for civil liberties." When liberals from Earl Warren to Walter Lippmann were demanding that California's Nisei be put in concentration camps for the duration of World War II, the FBI chief hotly protested, claiming that the demand for evacuation was "based primarily upon public and political pressure rather than upon factual data...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Nisei: The Pride and the Shame," a documentary on the Japanese Americans who were in internment camps in the U.S. during World War II while other Japanese Americans were fighting and dying in the armed services...