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a mere 25 years after their relocation, Japanese Americans have attained a secure, an honorable place in the mainstream of American life. This achievement, of course, is due to their own efforts. But little of this achievement would have been possible if the United States had not been

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all along a nation capable of outgrowing racial fears and prejudices of earlier times two Japanese Americans, as well as two other Americans of Japanese of Asian ancestry. The possibility of my being elected to the United States Senate, therefore from the state of California, is a deeply

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emotional issue. You can imagine what it would mean less than one generation since the Japanese relocation, and only a little more than one generation since the last Chinese was lynched in a California mining town to have this state represented in the United States Senate by a

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birthright member of the Yellow Peril. I almost owe it to my fellow Americans to become a United States senator if I can, But our college offers preeminently the prestige of being the place where exciting new things are always happening. Some good, some deplorable, some inspired, some

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silly. It is possible to go crazy at San Francisco State, and many of us do. But at least we are never bored. Dedicate oneself to the defense of academic freedom. Then when you find yourself in a position to do so is perhaps the most important thing

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an educator can do. Therefore, I'm not going to run for a seat in the United States Senate. I'm not going to go after Dr Rafferty's job. Villas for departures. And the political scene at this time means that Senator Murphy, you get another term. I don't know.

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Was there ever a point? Dr Heikal, where you have convinced yourself to enter the political arena and convinced yourself to state the job here. I convinced myself both ways about six or seven times back and forth. Appreciate it. Thousands of years old, the Sanskrit word for

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if that's the case, how much money has been collected? What are your plans to do with I don't know. Ever since. Really? Okay. You didn't put a line in Okay? No one's going live on 17 before you start working. Where's or in the land? Mhm. I

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want to can go. Mhm. Are you ready, gentlemen? Yes, sir. Okay. I'll shoot Yeah. For many months, public opinion polls have been telling me that I have a chance of being elected to the United States Senate. And thousands of people have been urging me in conversation

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by letter and by telegram to make the run. And I must say it's very difficult to pass up such an opportunity. It's given only to 100 individuals that anyone kind and to only there is for the average person in South beliefs and practices. Cast is Varna,

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which originally met race. Much has happened since I was thrust into this job a little over 13 months ago. I met a fascinating student body of all ages, from 16 to 60 of all shapes and sizes and all shades of skin color and political opinion. I've

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met talented and dedicated teachers bewildered by the anarchy and confusion created by the violent and insolent tactics of both faculty and student strike leaders tactics that our profession, neither in his traditions of empathy and reasoned discourse nor in its administrative traditions of laissez faire was that

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all prepared to cope with. I have seen these teachers killed him. The idea that the free play of ideas characteristic of institutions of higher learning in free societies can be destroyed by student fanatics such as as endocrine in Japan or the German or American versions of

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the S. D s and black militants under the influence of Black Panther ideology. The idea that this Lafayette can come arouses deep anxieties everywhere, no less among those who have never been to college as among those who have. And despite the about aims piece or racial

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justice or whatever of the violent activists, wherever they have left their mark, there's a diminution of academic freedom. The assault on freedom has been so successful that at the most prestigious institutions in the United States today at the present time is impossible to invite the president

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of the United States himself come. What I'm saying, then, is that I see my work at San Francisco State College has barely begun far from completed. In addition, quite often, the executor is well known. And you are just Yeah, I've gone over all that in my

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mind. Doctor. How does that does that mean that Republican doctor, Do you intend to endorse any other candidate for the Senate? I'm going to cross my bridge when I come to it, I think I'm going to. I'm going to act as if private citizen and I

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shall discuss issues and perhaps endorse candidates. But I have made no decisions about that yet. You can say that perhaps Mr Cain has sources of information into the workings of my mind that I don't have myself given the mhm. Okay, What a question. We I inclined

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towards running for the Senate, as my statement makes very clear, because I spent more time discussing that, and I discussed the other one. Uh huh. I assume that serious. Not a dime. I mean, people have promised money, but I don't see any checks. Dr Hayakawa? Uh,

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no, I'm not Dr Hayakawa, would you? Would you? So far as I know, look at that. I don't know, Doctor. Who would you expand a bit on your statement as to the future? Would you expand a little on your statement as to the future of black

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studies at State? Do you intend to disperse the program throughout the academic? There's no decision made on that yet. Mhm. Are you planning any changes? Whatever the plan, to continue to watch it very carefully and Dean Whitaker is meeting with members of the department and trying

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to arrive at a solution. What were the two strong? Was there a single overriding aspect of this that made you decide not to run? Was at your age or the fact that you didn't want to live in Washington or, uh or merely that you wanted to

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fight for academic freedom? Well, I think that the most important thing was a sense of duty I had to this particular job and the sense that the task was only half done. And a number of very dedicated people who have worked with me this past year

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they want me to stay. And also I don't want to run out on them. Of course, there's the fact that I have spent my life in education. I'm more familiar with this task than with any other I can envisage. May I read you a telegram? By

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the way you received from chance for Donkey? Would you like that? This was Let's keep the question for those people, please. All right? Yeah, Yeah. Political question. Oh, I should say within the last three weeks when you're considering running for office, did you ever seriously think

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that you might challenge Governor Reagan? No, I never theories theories. You thought about that because I've known all along. In fact, I knew it very well in the Brown administration that the governor's job is such a a complex technical task requiring kind of intimate knowledge that

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I didn't think I'd ever acquire. So I never really considered that one. Do you believe? Yeah, there has been some money collected or contributing behalf of your possible candidates. Mhm among those who are urging me most strongly to run our my Japanese American friends old and

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you people who went through the experience of being taken from their homes and businesses and placed in desert relocation centers during the Second World War. Okay, in agriculture and business and industry, it was helped along in measuring immeasurably by the record of nice, eh? Fighting men

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in World War Two, all right, and the Free university is central to a free society. I'm going to continue with the task of defending and extending the area of academic freedom right here in the one place where I'm beginning to learn how complex the problem is

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and how to go about beginning to solve them. We'll tell you about I don't know. I haven't seen any. No, no, not not accepted.