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TI: Okay, so we're gonna go into our second hour, and we got through your life up to your military career, so this is about 1946, '48.

LH: Correct.

TI: And so why don't you tell me, after the military, what was the next step? What did you do next?

LH: Right. Well, came back to Seattle, and I went to the U of W and took some courses at Cornish. I was very much interested in, in writing, and thinking I wanted to be a playwright. So I remember Tom Tsutakawa was attending art school there, the art section, and so I went there for a year at UW and Cornish, and then I decided to go to Boston primarily on the basis of what we talked about, that I felt that I wanted to go out and see the other part of America, the other part where there's going to be a lot less prejudice because I will not be an economic threat to the majority, and that's where most racial prejudice emerges from. And at that time, I had also my oldest sister living in Washington, D.C., her husband getting his Ph.D. at Georgetown University in political science. So through their friends and my contacts, I went to Boston University, and that was in '49, and then graduated in '51. And by then, and I... [laughs] you say we can edit things out, but I'm not worried about this. My brother-in-law, John Ishii, after getting his Ph.D. out of Georgetown had joined the Department of State, and had opened up the door for me. But you know, it's just like everything in life, you may have someone open a door for you, but you have to prove yourself. So I'd taken all the appropriate tests, and the orals, and was accepted in the foreign service. And so from '51 until '93, I was literally involved with the Department of State, even though I formally retired in 1988. In fact, if I may say, lunch at the White House, and retirement ceremonies on the Schultz in July of 1988. And then -- we'll talk about certain aspects of my career before I go on to my second career?

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