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LH: I want to say thank you very much. It's been a great... is there any final thoughts that you would like to add, something that I haven't touched on or we haven't touched on that you would like to say and for people to know and people to sort of realize about this conference, or, you know, the Nikkei community or anything like that?

FH: Well, I think this conference is a good thing. It brought out many people with differing opinions, but as I said many times, it took everybody to bring about redress. I think that NCRR maybe emphasized their importance a little bit too much to the disparagement of JACL. And no matter what they say, I think they're pushing them, their position a little bit better than JACL. I get that impression, I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

LH: And how about NCJAR?

FH: Oh, he and... he, what's his name, Bill.

CK: Bill Hohri. William Hohri.

FH: Bill, yeah, he and I had little words. But I told him that, "I didn't support you because your deal never had a chance to get passed, the judicial way." For one thing, his claims were too big. And at that time with the budget in trouble, and I didn't think he had a chance, and I told him, "You don't have a chance. That's why I didn't support you," I like his ideas. But he has always, always put JACL down. And then when he, when JACL, the deal went through, he applied for his $20,000. Then he makes a statement, "Well, I spent the twenty thousand dollars and bought a car." It doesn't matter what -- he didn't have to make that statement. I think his statement was disparaging JACL's efforts, that's the way I took it and I didn't like that a bit. And there are... well, I don't know. Well, that's about all I have to say. [Laughs]

LH: Well, thank you very much.

FH: Well, thank you, yeah.

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