ronald reagan was the president during the japanese internment.
ronald reagan was the president during the japanese internment.
who was the president during the japanese internment?
ronald reagan
hosokawa's wife returned to the u.s. in anticipation of the birth of their first child. hosokawa did not see his son, michael, until the baby was 14 months old. the family lived in seattle in 1941, just before the japanese attack on pearl harbor. soon after the attack, president franklin d. roosevelt signed executive order 9066. as a result, bill hosokawa, his wife, and the couple's infant son were among 120,000 japanese americans on the west coast who were sent to japanese internment camps during world war ii.
bill hosokawa
the controversial conclusions drawn by lowman were defended by conservative commentator michelle malkin in her book "in defense of internment; the case for 'racial profiling' in world war ii and the war on terror" (2004). malkin's defense of japanese internment was due in part to reaction to what she describes as the "constant alarmism from bush-bashers who argue that every counter-terror measure in america is tantamount to the internment". she criticized academia's treatment of the subject, and suggested that academics critical of japanese internment had ulterior motives. her book was widely criticized, particularly with regard to her reading of the "magic" cables. daniel pipes, also drawing on lowman, has defended malkin, and said that japanese american internment was "a good idea" which offers "lessons for today".
internment of japanese americans