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BF: Now, that's sort of, I think, kind of, that's a, a clear, sort of, obvious reason why you were an asset... being Republican. But aside from the contacts maybe being a Republican allowed the JACL to have, do you think your sort of coming from a different point of view than a lot of the organizers in JACL had, sort of added sort of a different philosophical belief or a different value to the movement that was helpful?

GU: I don't know. Maybe, maybe Cherry would have a better answer than that. I think that the... I think that philosophically, we were in the same place. Mainly, that internment was a terrible thing and we needed to right it. So, that was the deepest level of the philosophy. But there was no disagreement on that. If I said, "Well, why are you doing this?" then I should not, I shouldn't have been around, anywhere. So the issue became, once I bought in to what Cherry, and Denny, and Grayce, and Min, and Mike, and Bob, and all the others believed and wanted to do, once I bought into that philosophically, then it became in some sense a -- I don't want to sound bloodless about it, but it became a, for me, a technical exercise. Now that we believe this, how do we get from A to B to C to D? So, so I could be conservative and be Japanese American and believe very strongly in the rightness of redress. So there was no litmus test for me in, in that regard. There are a lot of very good liberals, I'm sure, among Japanese Americans who said, "Yeah, they're doing redress, but I'm not going to do a goddamn thing," and they didn't.

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