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MN: So you retired when the redress bill was signed, the same year.

IH: Yeah. In fact, I went to, I did have opportunities to go to the Capitol and I did sit in the galleries and listen to some of the dialogue going on, and Norman Mineta's speech, and it was interesting, some of the things that were said by members of the Senate and House. Not very good.

MN: Did you think that the bill had a chance to get passed?

IH: I didn't really understand. I hoped it would, but then I understand later on that it was a very close call.

MN: Did you testify at the commissions at all?

IH: No.

MN: Was your mother alive when the bill passed?

IH: No, let's see, that was... she died in 1989. Yeah, I guess...

MN: So she would have been eligible, '88 it passed. But she didn't live long enough to see her get redress.

IH: Yeah, because they didn't sign the bill for, the legislation passed in '88, and they didn't actually sign the Civil Liberties Act until...

MN: Oh, I thought it was '88 that they signed it, August '88? I think that's when Reagan signed it.

IH: Okay. But she didn't live long enough to receive it. It's regrettable because the ones that suffered the most were not around. They didn't receive the apology, too bad.

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