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BumRushDaShow

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5. Wow. R.I.P.
Mon Jul 30, 2018, 12:34 PM
Jul 2018

He was powerful AND controversial (especially post-Congress) but one thing he was able to do was to help get reparations for the Japanese-Americans held in internment camps. How ironic that he lived to see the same "internment" go into place today for Mexican and Central American immigrants (including some of their citizen family members).

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