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Title: Tetsujiro "Tex" Nakamura Interview
Narrator: Tetsujiro "Tex" Nakamura
Interviewers: Tom Ikeda (primary), Barbara Takei (secondary)
Location: Los Angeles, California
Date: September 24, 2009
Densho ID: denshovh-ntetsujiro-01-0018

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TI: Tex, we're going to start up again. And I wanted to kind of go back a little bit. Because during this whole process, you got your law degree.

TN: Yes, I went through night school at Southwestern University, and then passed the bar. [Laughs]

TI: And I'm curious, working, so you had kind of this unique experience. Here you're doing all this legal work even before you were a lawyer. And wanted to find out how valuable was that in your training to work with Mr. Collins?

TN: Oh, yeah, I learned quite a bit from him. The relationship of attorney and client is very important. And a lot of things which... although I had some accounting background, but not too much of attorney relationships. Yeah, he taught me quite a bit.

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