Speech #1000116640

First came the Chinese. who worked on the railroads. and then the Japanese arrived before the turn of the century. What you had in 1942 was a liberal President. Franklin Roosevelt. signing an order saying that it was all right to intern Americans of Japanese ancestry. Mr. President. I said Americans of Japanese ancestry. These were not aliens. These were not green card workers. These were not naturalized Americans. These were nativeborn Americans. And. to his eternal discredit. although he admitted it later in life. one of the principal supporters of that decision of the Governments right to intern Americans of Japanese ancestry was then California Attorney General Earl Warren.