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TK: Once the book was published, once recommendations were made to Congress, what was, what happened to the commission staff, to the commission and what happened to the life of Mr. Angus Macbeth?

AM: [Laughs] Well, there were roughly six months between the publication of the historical report and the recommendations and the staff slowly came down in numbers over that period. We got more and more of the work done, and frankly, we were running out of the money Congress gave us. One thing that we had really wanted to do and we simply didn't have the money to do at the end, was to print the testimony of the hearings, particularly the Japanese Americans. And we simply ran out of funds. We weren't able to do that. So, partially from the financial pressures and partially just because the work was declining, we slowly brought the numbers down, and then the last major job after the recommendations were out was making sure everything that we had went into the archives so if anyone in the future wanted to look at any of this and see it, they could find it and work with it. And I had been, I wasn't there full time through this period. And I began to spend more and more time back in private law practice and then, really returned to it completely after we'd finished off the last job. I mean, I've always tried to be available and helpful when things relevant to the commission's work and its recommendations have come up, and testified in Congress three, four, five times in the succeeding years. There were a number of hearings held on the recommendations before anything actually happened. And I tried to aid and support other people in that effort as well. But I sort of went back where I'd come from. [Laughs]

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