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TI: But before we go to SUNY, I think it was when you were at Wyoming that Concentration Camps USA...

RD: The Asian American book was finished there, and the writing of the book -- because when I left Atlanta after the school, I went up to...

TI: To Hyde Park?

RD: To Hyde Park. And earlier I had gone... no. And the next year, or in another year, I went to the National Archives and met with Stetson Conn before I went there. That was not that summer. This summer was the summer of Hyde Park, so I did a lot of the basic research for that book and for the Roosevelt biography... which I didn't know I was going to do a Roosevelt biography then, but I knew I wanted to write a big book about the New Deal. So I did some of that research then.

TI: So the Hyde Park trip, at that point you knew you were going to still do the book Concentration Camps USA?

RD: Oh, yes, I always knew that.

TI: So that was part of the research, but also collecting all this other information for your other book, or a future book?

RD: I've always done that. I'm always on the outlook for thinking about what I'm going to do next and next and next. And I've collected a lot of information I've never used. So some of it I've passed on to other people, others just is still sitting, and I may use it yet.

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