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LH: Well, what are some of, that unfinished business that you think needs to be taken care of?

GU: Well, I think the health care problem. This nation with its wealth, it almost makes me angry that with all the education and the intelligence that's there, and of course, one knows that things are decided in the United States on a political basis, so that's why I'm saying I want us to get back into that process. And now, from our experience that we have been empowered, not just to act for us. 'Cause I think when we act on issues that help other people then we become even freer and we find strength and power to speak out more about things that happened to us and... because there's still anti-Asian violence going on and the failure yet to see people of Japanese ancestry who have, whose brain power has been recognized, but I don't know of anybody who's on the board of a major corporation. If they want to use our brain power to create the things that we sell, why can't some of our people be on the board to make decisions like that so that we will someday feel that we are truly part of this country, the decision-making process. So that's the goal I see ahead and I hope that that's going to happen.

LH: Well, thank you very much.

GU: Okay. [Laughs]

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